At 10:58 20/05/2009, Craig Ringer wrote:
I suspect a lot of that comes down to user/admin knowledge as much as anything. [...] That said, there are also a few bugs lurking that only affect the Windows version. [...] I've used Pg on my laptop at various points when it's been running Windows, and found it stable and reliable for my purposes (app dev and testing). [...] Some antivirus scanners must be fully uninstalled, not just told to ignore Pg [...] In short: Virus scanners are *E*V*I*L*. I've seen relatively few issues with recent versions of a few, but most seem to be way more trouble than they're worth unless you do only very simple things on your machine.
Thanks much for the feedback. If customers choose to install the DBMS on a Windows server, I'll tell them that it's just not a good idea to have an AV running on it, and find other ways to secure it (firewall, permissions, etc.)
If some users have been using the native Win32 version of PG in production, I'd like to hear how it runs in terms of stability and performance. This DBMS is meant to be used in SOHO settings, meaning it should be very easy to install, use, and kept up-to-date.
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