November 29, 2004

PostgreSQL in Windows Natively and Turn Off Windows Indexing

PostgreSQL Native Win32 Status Report. PostgreSQL version 8 beta 5 has just been released and you can get the Windows installer at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller. If I had the money to hire a software developer, I'd have him/her write an application in Python using wxPython as the GUI API for rapid development of a utility to organize all my files I have listing my protocols and notebook entries and results in one easy navigable page -- perhaps with a SQL backend if need be (PostgreSQL, obviously). But come to think of it, it's sufficient what I have now: a file directory organization of my files, all indexed by Google Desktop for easy search and retrieval.

By the way, for you Windows users, here's a big tip: if you have and use Google Desktop, there is no apparent need then for Windows (XP) to automatically index the files for easy search. Under "My Computer" right click the C: drive and choose "Properties." Then uncheck the box at the bottome of the General tab that says "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Do the same for any other partitions or drives that Google Desktop indexes. This should save you some CPU cycles.

Posted by johnvu at November 29, 2004 11:25 PM
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