>>>>
Whee ... so you get to cope with all the bugs/idiosyncrasies
of three
>>>>
operating system layers, not just one. I concur that
running Postgres
>>>>
in the underlying Windows O/S is probably a much better
idea.
>>
>>>
Me too, but this is purely for learning and I am much more
use to Linux stack then ... gasp Windows :-)
>>
>> Hmm,
so maybe you should install Ubuntu as the native O/S, and
when
>> you
need Windows, run it inside a VM?
>
> Between
windows 10 and ubuntu 18.04, I would take a really close
look at freebsd myself. Or at least alpine...
As a developer, I regularly work with
PostgreSQL in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In using
it for sandboxing and testing, the only notable idiosyncrasy
that I have encountered is the appearance of these warnings on
startup.
Unfortunately,
workstation OS is not always a choice, but WSL has so far
offered a productive (and built-in!) option for running
Linux-based tools on Windows.
I can't
imagine running a production server from WSL, but it is a
refreshingly simple way to spin up local dev databases. It would be
great to see the community take an interest in supporting
PostgreSQL in WSL, if only in the context of its use as a
development tool.
--
Austin Drenski
