[Tile-serving] [osm2pgsql] windows version, please (#472)

[Paul Norman]

> @pnorman - can you explain your statement a bit more? Are there recommended design docs out there for a windows system or windows/linux hybrid?

PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance states "In practice, systems doing the sort of large queries that most benefit from this are not commonly practical on Windows anyway, due to its limitations in shared memory and connection capacity". You can find other statements about the limitations of Windows for large databases, and osm2pgsql whole planet imports are generally large. See also https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_%26_Installing_PostgreSQL_On_Native_Windows

If you are not operating the database server yourself, it's then not an issue, and you might want to then run osm2pgsql on a different machine, which might end up being Windows. This is generally unlikely.

---
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/issues/472#issuecomment-151314777
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tile-serving/attachments/20151026/ee1383d2/attachment-0001.html>