"Robert Treat" <xzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:200510071059.16093.xzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Friday 07 October 2005 04:22, Andrus wrote: >> > PostgreSQL does not run in Windows 98 >> > You can run PostgreSQL on Cygwin on Win98, I think. >> > But ifyou're running your database server on win98, you obviously don't >> care much about your data :) >> >> My goal is to allow my application demo, trial and development versions >> to >> run in every Windows. >> If customer is not able to run even demo, he will not add data to take >> care >> of. So running in Windows 98 is more important than taking a much care >> about data in this case. >> So I must add both native and cygwin versions and cygwin intallation to >> my >> application setup and maintain cygwin and postgres-cygwin versions. A >> huge >> meaningless work. >> Do you think that this is more reasonable than using Firebird ? >> > > Just depends on how well your application code will work with firebird, > but > I'd certainly cut you some slack that it's a good reason to look around. > Since this sounds more like a single use application database you might > want > to look at sqlite. It's install requires zero configuration and it's > public > domain software so you don't have any licensing issues and afaik it runs > on > win98 with no problems. I must support demo versions for 1 to 100 users in all Windowses using free software. So there are the following options : 1. Use Firebird 2. Use Postgres + cygwin all cases, even in XP 3. Use Postgres native for XP, Postgres+cygwin in Win 98 4. Use Postgres native for XP, Sqlite in in Win 98 (4) is the most expensive (requires supporting 2 different dbmses) No ida, which is best from the remaining three. Andrus. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
