Re: [Pypgsql-users] Will pypgsql serve PGSQL7.4 on Windows?

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ze...@in... wrote:
> I wanna begin an adventure with PostgreSQL and pypgsql on Windows.

The only available native win32 version of PostgreSQL was some beta I 
once got a link for by the company that did the win32 port. It's based 
on 7.2. This company killed the win32 port shortly before it got 
completed if I remember the postings on postgresql-dev correctly.

Right now Bruce Momjan and the original win32 porter (who left the 
company in the meanwhile, "left" being an euphemism ...) are working on 
getting the win32 stuff ready before PostgreSQL 7.4 beta, which is 
scheduled for July 1.

PostgreSQL 7.4 beta will also feature a new FE/BE protocol, and the 
server will use this protocol. The client will support the new and the 
old protocols.

If I'm not mistaken this will mean that you'll have to recompile pyPgSQL 
against the 7.4 client libraries to be able to access 7.4 servers.

It's also not entirely sure if the win32 stuff will be ready for beta 
testing until July 1. If it isn't, it will be deferred for PostgreSQL 
7.5. Same for PITR.

> I've read that pypgsql doesn't work with native windows version of PostgreSQL. 

Where have you read that?

> But probably already on 1 July will be released new version of PGSQL-7.4 , which will work on Windows without installing cygwin.

Hopefully.

> I dont wanna installing cygwin so I'am interested if this new version of PGSQL will work with pypgsql on windows (if yes on which versions of Windows). I realize that my query may be a little premature, but who knows - maybe for somebody answer is simple today.

Fortuntely, compiling pyPgSQL on Windows is relatively easy, so you 
could do that yourself when the beta comes out. Chances are I'll try to 
do that myself, though and I might provide testing pyPgSQL binaries for 
7.4 beta.

-- Gerhard