Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
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> "Dwayne Miller" <dmiller@espgroup.net> writes:
>
>
> As mlw said, porting Postgres to run natively on Windows would be a
> significant effort. The forking mechanism it uses currently would
> have to be completely rearchitected. The buffer, file manager, and
> networking code would have to be rewritten. Off the top of my head,
> for a top programmer who is an expert in Unix, Windows, and Postgres,
> it might take a year.
IIRC someone had the backend working in multithreaded mode (actually
he had one of the forked backends doing it) as a part of some
java-driven backend.
From the description of it it seemed that it did not take a full
man-year to get there ;)
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Hannu
