> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 04 September 2001 06:43
> To: dave Page
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Porting to Native WindowsNT/2000
>
>
> I thought this might interest you.
> **
"Ken Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Three can you start cygwin programs on startup of the system?
> It's not quite as simple as that. You can run it as a service under the
> SRVANY program, but that doesn't provide for a clean shut-down. Has anybody
> written an NT service wrapper
Ian Lance Taylor (& others) wrote:
> > This is true. However, a process-pool architecture would benefit
Postgres
> > on other platforms besides Windows. Postgresql has been ported to the
> > HP3000 MPE/iX operating system, for example, which is POSIX-compliant,
but
> > has an awfully slow fork(
"Ken Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > (To be honest, the idea of worrying about security vulnerabilities on
> > Windows seems odd to me. If you are honestly worried about security
> > on your database server, the first step is to stop running Windows.)
>
> That's just a cheap shot. I've
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> "Dwayne Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> As mlw said, porting Postgres to run natively on Windows would be a
> significant effort. The forking mechanism it uses currently would
> have to be completely rearchitected. The buffer, file manager, and
> networki
> "Dwayne Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well, for one I have no idea what cygwin is, or what it does to
> > your system, or what security vulnerabilities it might add to your
> > system. It comes with alot of stuff that I may or may not need, but
> > what components I need to r
"Ian Lance Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Dwayne Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well, for one I have no idea what cygwin is, or what it does to
> > your system, or what security vulnerabilities it might add to your
> > system. It comes with alot of stuff that I may or may n
"Dwayne Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, for one I have no idea what cygwin is, or what it does to
> your system, or what security vulnerabilities it might add to your
> system. It comes with alot of stuff that I may or may not need, but
> what components I need to run Postgres
Well, for one I have no idea what cygwin is, or what it does to
your system, or what security vulnerabilities it might add to your
system. It comes with alot of stuff that I may or may not need, but
what components I need to run Postgres is not clear.
Two could Postgres be made more
Dwayne Miller wrote:
>
> I understand that the current port of Postgres for Windows requires the
> cygwin package. I'd like to understand the requirement for cygwin,and
> possibly try to port Postgres to run natively on Windows as a NT/2K
> service. Anyone like to identify the challenges in suc
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