

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin@rcsonline.com] 
> Sent: 22 November 2002 21:25
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] PostGres and WIN32, a plea!
> 
> 
> I had read on one of the newsgroups that there is a planned 
> native port to the win32 platform, is this true?  I read most 
> of the win32 thread off of the dev site and it was not clear 
> if this was true.

Hi Merlin,

This is true - the port is being actively worked on (see recent posts
from Bruce Momjian). A number of us have also been involved with the
closed source beta testing recently.

> I think postgres is the fastest 
> database ever written for pc hardware, with the one possible 
> exception of Microsoft Foxpro (note: not written by 
> Microsoft).  

Hmm, ever tried using a large multiuser database such as a finance
system using a Foxpro database? Network managers have been known to
murder for less... :-)

Regards, Dave.

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:43:20 -0000
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: PostGres and WIN32, a plea!
Dave Page wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin@rcsonline.com] 
> > Sent: 22 November 2002 21:25
> > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [HACKERS] PostGres and WIN32, a plea!
> > 
> > 
> > I had read on one of the newsgroups that there is a planned 
> > native port to the win32 platform, is this true?  I read most 
> > of the win32 thread off of the dev site and it was not clear 
> > if this was true.
> 
> Hi Merlin,
> 
> This is true - the port is being actively worked on (see recent posts
> from Bruce Momjian). A number of us have also been involved with the
> closed source beta testing recently.

Yes, I expect the 7.4 release, due in mid-2003, to have a native Win32
port.

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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:27:10 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: PostGres and WIN32, a plea!
>
> Hmm, ever tried using a large multiuser database such as a finance
> system using a Foxpro database? Network managers have been known to
> murder for less... :-)
>
Hmm, I have, and you could imagine the result :)
It was a small system, really and everything was fine until I added my 10th
user.  Then my data left me like the parting of the Red Sea :).

Building a database system on lousy tehnology, only to rewrite it is
something all database admins have to go through.  I think its kind of like
coming of age.  On the unix side of things, you have mysql catching people
the same way.

FP did have a very nice query optimizer.  Also, FP views optimized the where
condition through the query, and have for quite some time (does PG do this
yet?).  I think the FP team was really on to something, till M hamstrung the
project.

FP also had the ability to write user defined functions into the query,
something I thought I would have to give up forever, until I stumbled across
PG (from the mysql docs, go figure!)


Merlin



Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:04:49 -0500
"Merlin Moncure" <merlin@rcsonline.com>
Re: PostGres and WIN32, a plea!