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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:31:21 +0100
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E41A76D9@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 11 August 2004 17:30
> To: Dave Page; PostgreSQL www
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
> 
>
> Well, unfortunately, at least 70% of the Windows users can be 
> counted on not to differentiate platform-specific issues from 
> general ones.  

I think the same applies to many *nix users these days now that it's so
easy to get a copy of Linux and give it a try. Mind you, I don't know
that it would be 70% any more than you do ;-)

> And given the flakyness of the platform, I 
> expect there to be continuous issues. 

Have you used any well admin'ed 2K/2K3 servers? I have roughly equal
numbers of Linux and Windows 2K/2K3 servers here and get roughly equal
reliability from both. I get far more hardware problems than OS, and
they don't care what you're running. Windows may still be riddled with
security holes, but it is pretty stable these days.

> Also, I'd really 
> rather not have a 25-post thread on PGSQL-SQL discussing how XP-SP3 
> breaks PostgreSQL.   

Nor would I want to see one in there about how ext-3 is horribly borked
on Linux 2.6.66. I hardly think it's fair to assume that all Windows
users are too stupid to post in the right place, but *nix users aren't.
Even if it does look that way in the future, it may well just be because
there end up being far more Windows users, but with a constant
percentage of plonkers.

I think I agree with Tom on this one - lets wait and see. It may be that
a wholesale re-organisation of the lists will be the best option.

Regards, dave.

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