Subject: Re: NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>,
	Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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Date: 25 Sep 2003 08:23:11 -0400
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On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:11, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > Don't be too hasty. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd welcome an
> > > updated commercial native windows solution (When's SRA's port coming out
> > > in 1.0?) , especially if they'd be willing to provide a "diff" of the
> > > code back to the community. We might as well have someone get paid for
> > > work we will probably have to do anyways...
> > 
> > I think a few things that Oleg needs to find out first is whether or not
> > PeerDirect *will* feed it back to the community ... how much did they feed
> > back of Jan's work?  Considering where win32 seems to be sitting, it
> > doesn't seem like much ...
> 
> PeerDirect contributed the code, but neither they or Jan wanted to port
> it up to current CVS, and that's were we/I got stuck.
> 

So it would be a boon for them to pay someone to bring it up to date
(assuming they would donate it back to the community).


> SRA's Windows port is up to 7.3.4, and I think they just released
> version 1.1, so that is going fine --- and I have the source code to
> use in our native Win32 port, just not the threading stuff.

And if I've paid attention, the threading bits are what SRA used to get
around the fork/exec issues?  

Incidentally I don't recall any announcements from SRA that they were
past the beta development phase with their version, seems like that
could have gotten some mention on the main postgresql site. 

Robert Treat
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