Re: Performance on Win32 vs Cygwin

Reini Urban <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Magnus Hagander schrieb:
> IIRC, previous versions of postgresql (< 8.0) did not correctly sync
> disks when running on Cygwin. I'm not 100% sure, can someone confirm?
> 8.0 does, and I beleive it does both under native win32 and cygwin.

yes, sync is a NOOP on cygwin.

> It's been my experience that the native version is slightly faster than
> the cygwin one, but I've only compared 8.0 to 8.0.

Sure. This is expected. Cygwin's interim's layer costs a lot of time. 
(process handling, path resolution)
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Reini Urban
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