Re: Postgres 8.0 vs. Postgres 7.4/Cygwin

Scott Goldstein schrieb:
> I'm currently trying to make a decision on whether to use the Cygwin
> port of Postgres 7.4  or Postgres 8.0 for a windows installation.  Can
> someone provide some comparison info?  Specifically,
>
> 1.  Is the Cygwin port viable for an enterprise environment?

no, certainly not. try the native windows port instead.

> Does it perform?  Is it reliable?

On about 10% percent of the cygwin 8.0 users it has yet unsolved IPC
problems on initial startup.
Loading the perl interpreter (plperl) has also caused IPC problems. (7.4
and 8.0)

> 2.  How reliable is the Cygwin port compared to the 8.0 Windows version?
> 3.  Has the Cygwin port been used very much in enterprise systems, or is
> it intended only for development environments?

yes, the latter.

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