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Clean up some of restructured text formatting in the README.rst
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@ -174,12 +174,12 @@ traditionally used for convenience and simplicity.
The advantages of Postgres include:
* significant performance improvements due to the superior threading and
caching model, smarter query optimiser
* allowing the DB to be run on separate hardware
* allowing basic active/backup high-availability with a "hot spare" synapse
pointing at the same DB master, as well as enabling DB replication in
synapse itself.
* significant performance improvements due to the superior threading and
caching model, smarter query optimiser
* allowing the DB to be run on separate hardware
* allowing basic active/backup high-availability with a "hot spare" synapse
pointing at the same DB master, as well as enabling DB replication in
synapse itself.
The only disadvantage is that the code is relatively new as of April 2015 and
may have a few regressions relative to SQLite.
@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ For information on how to install and use PostgreSQL, please see
Running Synapse
===============
To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to run
(e.g. ``~/.synapse``), and::
To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to
run (e.g. ``~/.synapse``), and::
cd ~/.synapse
source ./bin/activate
@ -243,18 +243,20 @@ Windows Install
---------------
Synapse can be installed on Cygwin. It requires the following Cygwin packages:
- gcc
- git
- libffi-devel
- openssl (and openssl-devel, python-openssl)
- python
- python-setuptools
- gcc
- git
- libffi-devel
- openssl (and openssl-devel, python-openssl)
- python
- python-setuptools
The content repository requires additional packages and will be unable to process
uploads without them:
- libjpeg8
- libjpeg8-devel
- zlib
- libjpeg8
- libjpeg8-devel
- zlib
If you choose to install Synapse without these packages, you will need to reinstall
``pillow`` for changes to be applied, e.g. ``pip uninstall pillow`` ``pip install
pillow --user``