I would tell them to prototype on the cygwin version and port to the
native version when it comes out. I was counting off the days until the
win32 port for 7.4 but (IMO) the developers made the right decision to
delay until the next release. The cygwin version is a drag to install
but should be ok for development purposes.
I used to tell people to use the PeerDirect port but 7.2.1 is missing a
lot of nice features (especially schemas) and that port has some issues
with the WAL which (IMO) make it not very attractive in a production
environment. From what I understand Bruce has resolved these issues in
the official port. 7.4 has some killer features which I think are
under-hyped (for example
John Carmack's mantra regarding the hugely overdue Doom3 project is 'it
will be ready when it's ready'. In software, that's a good motto.
Merlin
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:28 PM
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] What I would say if someone asked me about no
win32
Q. Hey, I read in a bunch of places that 7.4 was going to have native
windows support, what gives?
