Hi folks
Tell me one thing... what is cygwin + postgresql then?
I find it cool with Windows.
And why Linux only? I successfully deployed it in
various other platforms including AIX and IRIX.(Thanks
to postgresql community.
I think loading and running Oracle in Windows (or any
other platform) is far more troublesome. If people can
bear Oracle, they should gladly accept postgresql.
Regards
N Banerjee
--- javier wilson <javier.wilson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
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