Re: Cygwin? or paid version from SRA?

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:34, David So wrote:
>
> For deploying PostgreSQL on Windoz platform, which one is a better
> option (performance, reliability) ? Thru Cygwin or Paid version from
> SRA?

I know one person who was quite happy with the windows version from
http://www.dbexperts.net/. He wanted a "spare" PG server but didn't have the
time/inclination to learn how to manage a Linux server.

> Any option for hot backup?

The pg_dump utility guarantees a consistent snapshot of the database without
having to block updates - is that what you're after?
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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd