Re: PGXLOG variable worthwhile? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | Dave Page |
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Subject | Re: PGXLOG variable worthwhile? |
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Msg-id | 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B88466@mail.vale-housing.co.uk Whole thread Raw |
In response to | PGXLOG variable worthwhile? (Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>) |
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Re: PGXLOG variable worthwhile?
("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Re: PGXLOG variable worthwhile? ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>) |
List | pgsql-hackers |
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] > Sent: 17 September 2002 06:36 > To: Christopher Kings-Lynne > Cc: Robert Treat; Justin Clift; Peter Eisentraut; Tom Lane; > Curt Sampson; PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PGXLOG variable worthwhile? > > > Well, let's see if we ever run on native NT4.X and we can > decide then. > Actually, don't our Cygnus folks have a problem with moving > pg_xlog already? No, because Cygwin knows about shell links. Whilst I'm here, I'll chuck my $0.02 in: I use PostgreSQL on Linux for production and XP for development, and am likely to continue that way. I've been beta testing the native Win32 port of PostgreSQL as Justin has and the latest version is fantastic - it runs as a service, osdb shows impressive results compared to Cygwin PostgreSQL on the same system and it's a breeze to install, despite there being no installer yet. What I can't understand is the attitude of some people here. Yes, Microsoft are evil, but the bottom line is, millions of people use Windows. Just look at the number of downloads for pgAdmin (shown at http://www.pgadmin.org/downloads/) - the last stable version has clocked up over 38,000 downloads, the preview I released just a couple of weeks ago, 2230 at the time of writing. I know from talking to some of the users that often people download copies for themselves and their colleagues, so we can probably assume there are actually 40,000+ PostgreSQL users that use Windows reguarly enough to want pgAdmin. What happens if you add in the pgAccess/Windows users, Tora, or pgExplorer? How many of these people would want to run PostgreSQL on Windows as well? What about the companies out there that have good sysadmins who want to use PostgreSQL, but manglement that insist on using Windows? What about situations where a single server is running SQL Server and other software (such as a middle tier server - as I have on one box here), and that other software cannot be changed, but SQL could? I think that ignoring the huge number of people that use windows because some of us consider it a Mickey Mouse OS is a particuarly bad strategy if we want to expand our userbase. Windows is not going anywhere soon, and like it or not, it *is* getting better and better. Our Windows 2000 (and our Beta3/RC1 .Net test Servers) are rock solid and haven't been rebooted in months) - we get more hardware faults these days, and those can occur on our Linux or HP-UX boxes just as easily. Anyway, enough of my rant :-) Regards, Dave.
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