Re: Best practices for building and running on FreeBSD?

Στις Τετάρτη 07 Φεβρουάριος 2007 02:15, ο/η Andrew Hammond έγραψε:
> I'm looking for a document on best practices for building and
> operating PostgreSQL on FreeBSD (amd64). Does such a thing already
> exist? If not, I'm willing to put one together and maintain it.
>
> Things I care about:
> 1) I need to run multiple postmasters on the same server. I think that
> jails may provide a good way to virtualize this. I haven't seen any
> documentation on running PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails except for a
> number of emails how it fails for FreeBSD 5.2.

Just follow http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00037.php
on what to expect from running postgresql inside FreeBSD jails.

>
> 2) Each of these postmasters may be running a different PostgreSQL
> binary (or PostgreSQL binaries with different additional modules like
> Slony1 included). The existing FreeBSD ports do not support having
> multiple versions of the PostgreSQL binaries installed. Again, there
> may be a work around for this using jails of which I am unaware.
> Currently I'm contemplating simply building binary tarballs.
>
> 3) My sysadmin wants me to do the Right Thing with regards to
> packaging.
>
> 4) I would strongly prefer to use DJB's services / multilog stuff to
> handle logging the operation of the database.
>
> 5) I would like to conform to community standards with regards to
> configure options to facilitate debugging or core dump analysis should
> it be necessary.
>
> Any guidance on this would be much appreciated.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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