A few weeks ago there was lots of messages about a port to WinNT of postgres 6.4.
Is this still the case and will it be available for download? If not..is there
any time frame when it will be.
Thanks
Chris
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, dustin sallings wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > I'm sorry if this question is answered somewhere, but does 6.4
> > require C++? My main database boy doesn't have a C++ compiler, and I
> > don't plan on getting one for it any time in the near future.
>
> This does not require C++ to compile, nor do I suspect it ever
> will...I couldn't imagine the effort to go through to actually convert it
> over to C++ :)
>
> > I tried a beta yesterday, and it compiled on 0/2 of the machines I
> > tried (NetBSD and IRIX). I'm really hoping this new version might fix
> > some of the instability issues I had with 6.3.2 in production.
>
> Please report any compile errors to pgsql-hackers ... it has been
> tested on NetBSD, but I don't believe Irix has been tested...
>
> >
> > // We plan to release PostgreSQL, version 6.4, within the next week.
> > //
> > // An announcement will be made as soon as it is ready. You can see the
> > // changes for this release on our web site at the bottom of the TODO list.
> > //
> > // We hope people will be able to upgrade within two weeks after its
> > // release, so we fix any problems and move on to the 6.5 release.
> > //
> > // 6.4 includes a pg_upgrade utility, that will allow upgrading without a
> > // dump/reload for 6.3.* users.
> > //
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> Marc G. Fournier
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
