Thread: Pgsql on Windows
How soon will 7.5 come out? (yes, I know, 7.4 is beta right now). How difficult is it to set up cygwin? I'd like to make a drop in Apache/Postgres/PHP application on a windows computer for someone in my organization. I'd PREFER to avoid ODBC if at all possible.
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:10, Dennis Gearon wrote: > How soon will 7.5 come out? (yes, I know, 7.4 is beta right now). Who knows... six months maybe? > How difficult is it to set up cygwin? Not very, I used postgres via cygwin for development for a long time. Works fine, but it's slower and not quite as stable as you would want for production purposes. > I'd like to make a drop in Apache/Postgres/PHP application on a windows > computer for someone in my organization. > > I'd PREFER to avoid ODBC if at all possible. I don't see how ODBC fits in to this at all. There is no need for ODBC if postgresql is running via cygwin, running on a remote linux box, or even native on windows.
Dennis Gearon writes: > How soon will 7.5 come out? (yes, I know, 7.4 is beta right now). All signs point to September 24, 2004. > How difficult is it to set up cygwin? I found it quite easy. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > I don't see how ODBC fits in to this at all. There is no need for ODBC > if postgresql is running via cygwin, running on a remote linux box, or > even native on windows. I am new to PostgreSQL what other options are available to connect then ? -- Eugene Vital Any technology indistinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Dennis Gearon writes: > > >>How soon will 7.5 come out? (yes, I know, 7.4 is beta right now). > > > All signs point to September 24, 2004. Have you verified that with the Master of Ceremonies? Mike Mascari mascarm@mascari.com
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:37, Gene Vital wrote: > Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > > I don't see how ODBC fits in to this at all. There is no need for ODBC > > if postgresql is running via cygwin, running on a remote linux box, or > > even native on windows. > > I am new to PostgreSQL > what other options are available to connect then ? When you have postgresql support compiled into PHP, then PHP connects directly using native PostgreSQL calls (libpq), no ODBC layer to deal with.
Hi > When you have postgresql support compiled into PHP, then PHP connects > directly using native PostgreSQL calls (libpq), no ODBC layer to deal > with. Working with Windows you normally don't compile PHP but use the Win binaries. To connect to a PostgreSQL database you must uncomment the php_pgsql.dll in php.ini. Regards Conni
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:37, Gene Vital wrote: > > Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > > > I don't see how ODBC fits in to this at all. There is no need for ODBC > > > if postgresql is running via cygwin, running on a remote linux box, or > > > even native on windows. > > > > I am new to PostgreSQL > > what other options are available to connect then ? > > When you have postgresql support compiled into PHP, then PHP connects > directly using native PostgreSQL calls (libpq), no ODBC layer to deal > with. Note that ODBC may still be preferred if you're trying to write a very generic app like a bulletin board or something. But the native layer generally reveals a little more of the database API to the code, which is sometimes quite nice too. It's all a trade off, I mostly use the native pgsql API and am very happy with it.