Jan Wieck wrote:>PeerDirect tried to
contribute the Win32 port portion of their work to
>the open source project.
>The PostgreSQL global development team has
not>yet made any final decision if or what parts of that code will or
will>not become part of the regular PostgreSQL distribution
Bruce Momjian wrote:>Actually, I believe we
have decided to use the PeerDirect code to do a>native Win32 port for
7.4. I just posted my first patch, and will spend>most of the next
two months completing the job.
Merlin Moncure wrote:>There is at least one
show-stopping bug which I believe is related to>the shared memory
emulation. I am almost 100% sure that the bug is in>the win32 side
and if still present will carry over to the latest>release.>I
offered to help find and catch it: but before I spend the time to do>that
I'd like to at least know if the problem has already
been>addressed. I was responding to the call for capable developers
to help>test upcoming patch, posted on this very list about two weeks
ago.
We already use Psql on Linux via ODBC as a "big
compatible MS Access RDBMS", with appropriate functions and operators
(great!!).
I think that a Win version of Postgres could easily
replace this MS product for professional usages, and I can test it to do
that.
Many Win developers could
receive benefits, could approach the OS world and Postgres could become
more used than MySQL... (thank God!)
I renew my aid as beta
tester for a Win32 version, when it will be placed on the CVS repository, as
already posted.
Let me know...
