Re: [mail] Re: Native Win32 sources

Al, to be honest I don't think the Windows native would save hassle,
rather it'd probably cause more! No disrespect to those doing the
version, read on for reasoning...

Yes, you get a beta of a Windows native version just now, yes it
probably will not be that long till the source is a available... But
how long till it's part of a cosha PostgreSQL release? Version
7.4... Could be up to six months... Do you want to run pre-release
versions in the meantime? Don't think so, not in a production
environment!

So, the real way to save hassle is probably a cheap commodity PC with
Linux installed... Or settle for the existing, non-native, Windows
version.

By the way, just to open Office documents? Have you tried OpenOffice?

Regards, Lee Kindness.

Al Sutton writes:
 > Is there a rough date for when they'll be available?
 > 
 > I have a development team at work who currently have an M$-Windows box and a
 > Linux box each in order to allow them to read M$-Office documents sent to us
 > and develop against PostgreSQL (which we use in production).
 > 
 > I know I could have a shared Linux box with multiple databases and have them
 > bind to that, but one of the important aspects of  our application is
 > response time, and you can't accurately measure response times for code
 > changes on a shared system.
 > 
 > Having a Win32 native version would save a lot of hassles for me.
 > 
 > Al.
 > 
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
 > 
 > > Ulrich Neumann wrote:
 > > > Hello,
 > > >
 > > > i've read that there are 2 different native ports for Windows
 > > > somewhere.
 > > >
 > > > I've searched for them but didn't found them. Is there anyone who can
 > > > point me to a link or send me a copy of the sources?
 > >
 > > Oh, you are probably asking about the sources.  They are not publically
 > > available yet.