Can I use native PostgreSQL with Windows?
Yes you can. Our Windows installer includes a particular version of PostgreSQL for “CygWin” (7.5.X). This version has prooved to work very well in our tests and this is the version that we are using for our internal test & development servers. Since the version 8.0 in March 2005 there is a “native” version of PostgreSQL for Windows. This version is know to be some 30% faster then CygWin Postgres, and is supposed to be more stable in future. However, there are some issues when moving a backup dump from 7.5.x to 8.0.x, so that we won’t deliver this option as part of our free Windows Installer yet. However, you can try it yourself or you can contract us to upgrade your system. We recommend an upgrade to 8.0 on Windows for companies with more then 10 “concurrent users” (=> users that access the system _at_the_same_moment_). Apart from that we would recommend you to stay with the CygWin version that comes with the installer.
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