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* What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev tools?
@ 2006-02-10 19:22 Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
  2006-02-11 00:40 ` Re: What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev tools? Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
  2006-02-11 01:57 ` Re: What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread

From: Ron @ 2006-02-10 19:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-performance; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Subject line says it all.  I'm going to be testing changes under both 
Linux and WinXP, so I'm hoping those of you that do M$ hacking will 
pass along your list of suggestions and/or favorite (and hated so I 
know what to avoid) tools.

TiA,
Ron





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* Re: What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev tools?
  2006-02-10 19:22 What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev tools? Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
@ 2006-02-11 00:40 ` Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread

From: Merlin Moncure @ 2006-02-11 00:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>; +Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

On 2/10/06, Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Subject line says it all.  I'm going to be testing changes under both
> Linux and WinXP, so I'm hoping those of you that do M$ hacking will
> pass along your list of suggestions and/or favorite (and hated so I
> know what to avoid) tools.

If you mean hacking postgresql source code, you pretty much have to
use the built in make/build system...this more or less rules out IDEs
and such.

I like UltraEdit for a text editor.  Another good choice for editor is
source insight.  Winmerge is a fantastic tool and you may want to
check out wincvs/tortoisesvn if you want to do checkouts from the gui.

Of course, to make/build postgresql in windows, you can go with cygwin
or mingw.  cygwin is a bit easier to set up and has a more of a unix
flavor but mignw allows you to compile native executables.

The upcoming windows vista will most likely be able to compile
postgresql without an external build system.

Merlin



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* Re: What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev
  2006-02-10 19:22 What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev tools? Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
@ 2006-02-11 01:57 ` Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
  2006-02-11 16:09   ` Re: [PERFORM] What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread

From: Mark Kirkwood @ 2006-02-11 01:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>; +Cc: pgsql-performance; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Ron wrote:
> Subject line says it all.  I'm going to be testing changes under both 
> Linux and WinXP, so I'm hoping those of you that do M$ hacking will pass 
> along your list of suggestions and/or favorite (and hated so I know what 
> to avoid) tools.
> 

Testing only? So you really only need to build and run on Windows...

I was doing exactly this about a year ago and used Mingw. The only 
annoyance was that I could compile everything on Linux in about 3 
minutes (P4 2.8Ghz), but had to wait about 60-90 minutes for the same 
thing on Windows 2003 Server! (also a P4 2.8Ghz...). So I used to build 
a 'go for coffee' task into the build and test cycle.

Cheers

Mark



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* Re: [PERFORM] What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev
  2006-02-10 19:22 What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev tools? Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
  2006-02-11 01:57 ` Re: What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
@ 2006-02-11 16:09   ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  2006-02-12 04:06     ` Re: [PERFORM] What do the Windows pg hackers out there like Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2006-02-11 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>; +Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> writes:
> I was doing exactly this about a year ago and used Mingw. The only 
> annoyance was that I could compile everything on Linux in about 3 
> minutes (P4 2.8Ghz), but had to wait about 60-90 minutes for the same 
> thing on Windows 2003 Server! (also a P4 2.8Ghz...). So I used to build 
> a 'go for coffee' task into the build and test cycle.

Youch!  That seems unbelievably bad, even for Microsloth.  Did you ever
identify what was the bottleneck?

			regards, tom lane



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* Re: [PERFORM] What do the Windows pg hackers out there like
  2006-02-10 19:22 What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev tools? Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
  2006-02-11 01:57 ` Re: What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
  2006-02-11 16:09   ` Re: [PERFORM] What do the Windows pg hackers out there like for dev Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
@ 2006-02-12 04:06     ` Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread

From: Mark Kirkwood @ 2006-02-12 04:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>; +Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> writes:
> 
>>I was doing exactly this about a year ago and used Mingw. The only 
>>annoyance was that I could compile everything on Linux in about 3 
>>minutes (P4 2.8Ghz), but had to wait about 60-90 minutes for the same 
>>thing on Windows 2003 Server! (also a P4 2.8Ghz...). So I used to build 
>>a 'go for coffee' task into the build and test cycle.
> 
> 
> Youch!  That seems unbelievably bad, even for Microsloth.  Did you ever
> identify what was the bottleneck?
> 

No - I was connecting using an RDB client from a Linux box (over a LAN), 
so was never sure how much that was hurting things... but (as noted by 
Magnus) the compiler itself is noticeablely slower (easily observed 
during the 'configure' step).

cheers

Mark



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