> > I'm sorry if I'm being alow here - is there any problem with running a
> > production server on cygwin's postgresql? Is the cygwin port of lesser
> > quality, or otherwise inferior?
>
> Performance, performance, perfomance... and perfomance... it is (almost)
> always worse perfomance when we emulate something... and using Cygwin we
> are emulating U*nix...
Absolutely. The DB throughput available to our application with postgresql
under cygwin is about 1/3 of what we get under Linux with a similar spec
machine/config.
That, and, more importantly, the odd spurious cygipc lock up, precludes our
use of postgresql/cygwin in a production setting. And not having postgresql
available on all our target platforms (which includes Windows) precludes the
use of it at all, as we desire a single DB solution. I don't imagine we are
the only ones in this situation (and to all those who see a Windows port as
"uninteresting", please keep this in mind).
Hopefully, we can change this situation soon...
Cheers,
Claudio
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