> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:24 pm, Tope Akinniyi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am wondering at this display of extreme Linux mentality being displayed
> > by the 'top bras' of the PostgreSQL community. And I ask, are we
> > encouraging Windows use of PostgreSQL at all?
> >
> > Take a look at tools being rolled out at PgFoundry on daily basis; all for
> > Linux except the Windows installer. I ask myself what is being done to
> > encourage PostgreSQL Windows users. Nothing is available to them except
> > the Database and PgAdmin. No replication tool, no this, no that.
>
> To be honest - I wouldn't encourage the use of PostgreSQL on Win.
> Neither would I for any database or data warehouse application (which probably
> is why SAP put onto their website that they prefer linux to windows
> platforms).
> I think it could even damage the quite good reputation of PostgreSQL - if your
> windows box crashes and takes the DB with it - most likely it's not the fault
> of a lousy OS, nor the fault of an incompetent sysadmin who forgot to make
> backups - it will be this "shitty" free database system that's to blame.
i think, the win version of postgresql has been a very important step,
i know developers who have taken an interest in postgresql because of
this version, because they first tried it on windows. later on, most
of these developers migrate to linux, but if you are a windows
developer it is important to have the possibility to try it first
without considering using a different platform.
once we built a web application using linux+apache+php+postgresql and
then needed to do a demonstration of the system on the client's
computer, it was really easy to get it to work with
win+iis+php+postgresql.
so, thank you to all the people who has made this possible.
also, i don't like windows, but many developers do, they prefer
windows, or they are forced to use it as a platform for their
applications. so, in many ways continuing with a windows version and
developing tools for windows is very important for the postgresql
community.