Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port
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Msg-id 200206051518.g55FITf09821@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port  (Mark kirkwood <markir@slingshot.co.nz>)
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Mark kirkwood wrote:
> Is it worth looking at how the mysql crowd did their win32 port  -
> (or is that intrinsically a _bad_thing_ to do..) ?
> 
> (I am guessing that is why their sources requires c++ ....)

Absolutely worth seeing how MySQL does it.  They use cygwin, and I
assume they aren't seeing the fork() issue because they are threaded,
and perhaps they don't use SysV IPC like we do.

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