Re: PostGres and WIN32, a plea!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin(at)rcsonline(dot)com]
> Sent: 22 November 2002 21:25
> To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)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.

Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin(at)rcsonline(dot)com]
> > Sent: 22 November 2002 21:25
> > To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)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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>
> 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