My vote would be to follow Craig Ringer's advice to run the pg server in a virtual machine. I'd choose something like vmware/fusion or if you want license free options, I think they exist that can run hosts on win32 and BSD/MacOS.
But if you wanted to avoid dual booting altogether and parallels/fusion/whatever can run you win32 apps well enough, I'd run the server on the Mac side and let the win apps connect to it via the virtual network adapters. This is how I've run things on my Mac with decent results.
HTH,
-Joshua
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:36 AM, John Gage
<jsmgage@numericable.fr> wrote:
This response came in as I was mea culpa-ing.
Everything here is correct to the best of my knowledge.
And I am very glad to be warned not to go between the two OS's.
Thank you,
John Personally, what I'd do would be create a virtual machine image with
something like VMWare - something that is supported on both Mac OS X and
on Windows. Put it somewhere both systems can access it - probably the
Windows NTFS partition. Then, whichever OS you're using, start the
virtual machine with Pg on it and use that server over the virtual
network between the VM and the real host.
Alternately, you could just point Pg at a data-dir on storage that both
systems can access, as described earlier. I'd be pretty wary of doing
this, though.
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Craig Ringer
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