On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:48:55PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote: > > On Sunday 20 October 2002 06:32 pm, William Hamilton wrote: > > Hi all, I am looking to setup SL at a clients shop for POS and stock > > management. The informed me late last week that they would now like ot > > have Windows on the machine so it seems Cygwin is the option. I setup > > Cygwin and all seems fine, documentation for installing PostgreSQL is > > rather old and points to some OLD files etc. Quesion. has onyone done > > a SL install with Cygwin or can point to some decent documentation? > > You really don't want to do that. I installed PG under > Cygwin a few years ago, and it worked, but it's difficult=20 > and slow. Tell your client that Linux is the right tool=20 > for this job. Doing it with Windows is like hammering a > nail with a Dr. Pepper bottle.
Nah, the proper terminology is "nailing jelly to a tree" :-) Check out ESR's "Jargon File" sometime. I'm not sure why your client thinks that PostgreSQL under Cygwin under Windows is the right way. Maybe it seems less arcane, but the fact is that Cygwin is running the Linux command line interface *anyways*. If they don't have a seperate computer, here is what one of my clients is running: Pentium 2 233 128 mb 10 GB harddrive This is running PostgreSQL, and I've tweaked the configuration files so that PSQL runs under 64mb of shared memory for it's sort -- and believe me, it uses it up fast when SL is calculating, say, the AR report against 20,000+ customer entires. That is one example of the pressure that PSQL with SL will put onto Windows -- and I have doubts it would handle it. You MIGHT be able to add extra memory, beef it up to say 512 mb and run XP -- by why bother when it runs rock steady with that old equipment? -Qaexl- http://www.next-horizons.com/qaexl/
