Jean-Michel POURE said: > > Morphix could be a possible solution to the MS Windows migration > problems. It probably involves 50 times less work than migrating > PostgreSQL to MS Windows (and is a complete different project except > for the fact that it could well bring as much new users to PostgreSQL > than a native Win port and is less risky). >
This is a fantasy, IMNSHO. Windows users will want a native program that they can run just like other Windows programs, and alongside them. Requiring the installation of a complete Linux distribution, no matter how nicely packaged, is hardly likely to win many Windows converts to postgres. If I were a data center manager, I would not think of allowing such a hybrid machine into it. I would insist that we either ran postgres as a native windows service, or run it on a pur *nix machine, or not at all. It would be a massive and unnecessary distraction, for no benefit, for postgresql hackers to go down this route. BTW, the major pieces of the Windows port are falling into place quite nicely, with little evidence so far of the risks you mention. Of course, there will be a few teething troubles, but nobody has yet seen a major blocker. The biggest problems (forking and signal emulation) appear to have been solved. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
