Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice? (v2)

From: Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tony McC <afmcc(at)btinternet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice? (v2)
Date: 2010-01-15 16:20:26
Message-ID: 396486431001150820i7d56ff0an7b95e25e9d555cea@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Tony McC <afmcc(at)btinternet(dot)com> wrote:

>> most stable platform for that RDBMS. For Oracle, that's HP-UX (but 10
>> years ago, it was Solaris). For PostgreSQL, it's Linux.
>
> I am interested in this response and am wondering if this is just
> Dave's opinion or some sort of official PostgreSQL policy.

>I really don't want to start a Linux vs
> FreeBSD flame war (I like Linux and use that too, though not for
> database use), I am just intrigued by the claim that Linux is somehow
> the natural OS for running PostgreSQL.

I would wager that this response is a tad flame-bait-"ish".

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