Magnus Hagander schrieb:
> IIRC, previous versions of postgresql (< 8.0) did not correctly sync
> disks when running on Cygwin. I'm not 100% sure, can someone confirm?
> 8.0 does, and I beleive it does both under native win32 and cygwin.
yes, sync is a NOOP on cygwin.
> It's been my experience that the native version is slightly faster than
> the cygwin one, but I've only compared 8.0 to 8.0.
Sure. This is expected. Cygwin's interim's layer costs a lot of time.
(process handling, path resolution)
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