Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: saving problem w/ postgresql Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 03:09:01 +0100 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <5.1.1.6.2.20030318154151.00a01b30@mail.actron.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de, en In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030318154151.00a01b30@mail.actron.com> > I am curious however, why you are not running this > on some version of Linux. Win2k may be a great > improvement over win9x, but it is still a second rate OS. don't blame him for the OS he is using! it's not even a problem with the OS, but with the software he is using. i would expect postgresql to run as stable as under linux, if there would be a native windows build, which is not the case. > Cygwin is outstanding in those cases where there is no > choice but to use windows. Linux is outstanding when > you do have a choice. postgresql is designed to be compiled and run on a unix-os like linux and cygwin is not designed to be used on a production system, so what Greg is doing is "unstable by design". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/