Re: scaling up postgres

"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:21:21PM -0400, John Vincent wrote:
>> Actually it's on my radar. I was looking for a precompiled build first (we
>> actually checked the Pervasive and Bizgres sites first since we're
>> considering a support contract) before going the self-compiled route. When I
>> didn't see a pre-compiled build available, I started looking at the
>> developer archives and got a little worried that I wouldn't want to base my
>> job on a self-built Postgres on a fairly new (I'd consider Power 5 fairly
>> new) platform.

> Well, pre-compiled isn't going to make much of a difference
> stability-wise. What you will run into is that very few people are
> running PostgreSQL on your hardware, so it's possible you'd run into
> some odd corner cases.

Power 5 is just a PPC64 platform isn't it? Red Hat's been building PG
for PPC64 for years, and I've not heard any problems reported. Now,
if you're using a non-gcc compiler then maybe that track record doesn't
carry over to whatever you are using ...

regards, tom lane