Re: What Linux edition we should chose?

Le lundi 31 mai 2010 10:23:51, Szymon Guz a écrit :
> 2010/5/31 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it>
>
> > On Mon, 31 May 2010 08:47:25 -0600
> >
> > Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Michal Szymanski
> > >
> > > <dyrex(at)poczta(dot)onet(dot)pl> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Currently we use Debian, but it chosen by our OS admnistrator.
> > > > Now we can change our OS and it is question what Linux edition
> > > > will be the best. We would like have access to new versions of
> > > > Postgres as soon as possible, for Debian sometimes we had to
> > > > wait many weeks for official packages.
> > >
> > > Pgsql is pretty easy to build from source.
> >
> > Yeah it is. But what is it going to be an upgrade process? On a
> > production box?
> > Any experience to share on upgrading from source on Debian?
>
> Usually that's pretty easy: for upgrading the minor version (e.g. from
> 8.3.1 to 8.3.3) it should be enough to compile the new sources, stop
> server, run `make install` and run the server with new binaries. Upgrading
> from 8.3 to 8.4 can be easily done using dump from current version. There
> is nothing wrong to run the new and old postgres versions parallel so you
> can copy data from one database to another.
> There is also pgmigrator, but I haven't checked that yet.
>
> Remember to make a database dump before the whole operation :)
>
> regards
> Szymon Guz

Me as system architec, sysadmin and manager (gerencial power) jejej :)

we have choose Mandriva, it is quite easy to install and to maintain, and
speaking about packages there are many support in them, including PGSQL

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