I couldnt get it : Re: PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

Hi folks

Tell me one thing... what is cygwin + postgresql then?
I find it cool with Windows.

And why Linux only? I successfully deployed it in
various other platforms including AIX and IRIX.(Thanks
to postgresql community.

I think loading and running Oracle in Windows (or any
other platform) is far more troublesome. If people can
bear Oracle, they should gladly accept postgresql.

Regards
N Banerjee

--- javier wilson <javier.wilson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:24 pm, Tope Akinniyi

wrote:

Hi,

I am wondering at this display of extreme Linux

mentality being displayed

by the 'top bras' of the PostgreSQL community.

And I ask, are we

encouraging Windows use of PostgreSQL at all?

Take a look at tools being rolled out at

PgFoundry on daily basis; all for

Linux except the Windows installer. I ask

myself what is being done to

encourage PostgreSQL Windows users. Nothing is

available to them except

the Database and PgAdmin. No replication tool,

no this, no that.

To be honest - I wouldn't encourage the use of

PostgreSQL on Win.

Neither would I for any database or data warehouse

application (which probably

is why SAP put onto their website that they prefer

linux to windows

platforms).
I think it could even damage the quite good

reputation of PostgreSQL - if your

windows box crashes and takes the DB with it -

most likely it's not the fault

of a lousy OS, nor the fault of an incompetent

sysadmin who forgot to make

backups - it will be this "shitty" free database

system that's to blame.

i think, the win version of postgresql has been a
very important step,
i know developers who have taken an interest in
postgresql because of
this version, because they first tried it on
windows. later on, most
of these developers migrate to linux, but if you are
a windows
developer it is important to have the possibility to
try it first
without considering using a different platform.

once we built a web application using
linux+apache+php+postgresql and
then needed to do a demonstration of the system on
the client's
computer, it was really easy to get it to work with
win+iis+php+postgresql.

so, thank you to all the people who has made this
possible.

also, i don't like windows, but many developers do,
they prefer
windows, or they are forced to use it as a platform
for their
applications. so, in many ways continuing with a
windows version and
developing tools for windows is very important for
the postgresql
community.

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