Hi all, just a small note to anyone who is interested in the status of this port.
Firstly, the fork/exec changes are coming along well. The first patch, for fork/exec'ing of backends has been accepted and applied. A second patch, for fork/exec'ing of the remainder of the postgres process has just been submitted for review. Two patches (which are essentially already completed) will follow this; the first to allow some further rearrangement of the postmaster fork/execs in preparation for the Win32 CreateProcess calls, and the final patch will place the actual CreateProcess calls into the code-base. It is reasonable to expect that we will have this changes in place within a few weeks. At that point, we will be within striking distance of a Win32 port. The "only" remaining barriers to a running, albeit "imperfect", implementation are: * signals (non-trivial, to say the least, but encouraging to see discussion occurring in this regard), * a workable pipe replacement * possible bootstrap issue between semaphores + shared memory [these, and other remaining issues to "perfect" the port, are listed in greater detail on http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html] FWIW, having kludged up some quick + dirty workarounds to the above points, I have actually had postgres running natively on my Win2K box, which I trust is an encouraging sign (to say the least) to anyone hanging out for this port... Merry Chirstmas all, Claudio --- Certain disclaimers and policies apply to all email sent from Memetrics. For the full text of these disclaimers and policies see <a href="http://www.memetrics.com/emailpolicy.html">http://www.memetrics.com/em ailpolicy.html</a> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match