RE: Postgres server on Windows 98

> Hello,
>     I've tried a few times to get regression tests to work on 98SE under
> cygwin and never managed to get all the way through. I do tend to do
> better under the serial tests than the parrallel tests (and the cygwin
> 1.3.1 seems better than 1.1.7). Some time or another (it varies when) it
> just seems to stop (e.g. the postgres backend terminates but psql is left,
> this just seems to happen some times any way and isn't specific to the
> tests).
> - Stuart
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Jason Tishler [SMTP:Jason.Tishler@dothill.com]
> Sent:    Friday, May 11, 2001 7:13 PM
> To:    Richard Church
> Cc:    pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> Subject:    Re: [CYGWIN] Postgres server on Windows 98
>
> Richard,
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:43:56PM -0000, Richard Church wrote:
> > Does the Postgresql server work on Windows? Not just the client?
>
> Many months ago, I tried PostgreSQL on Windows 98 so I could respond to
> a post on pgsql-ports.  It seemed to work.  So, my answer is a guarded
> "yes."  However, Cygwin runs *much* worse on 9X and Me than it does on
> NT 4.0 and 2000 implying (IMO) the same for PostgreSQL.
>
> Unfortunately, I never ran the regression tests.  Since, I no longer have
> access to a 9X or Me machine, I cannot do so now.  Would you or someone
> else being willing to try out the regression tests and report back to the
> list?  I recommend trying make installcheck (i.e., sequential schedule)
> first and then if that works, try make check (i.e., parallel schedule).
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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