Re: Memory on 32bit machine

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Chris <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Geoffrey <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Memory on 32bit machine
Date: 2008-01-08 02:49:00
Message-ID: 4782E49C.20703@commandprompt.com
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Chris wrote:

>>> Are there any other recommendations whether to use 64bit or 32bit OS
>>> with postgresql? I just want to use 64bit if it as stable as 32bit.
>>
>> I'm curious as to why you would run iptables on a database server. My
>> expectation would be that your database machine would be behind a
>> dedicated firewall.
>
> Why not? Security in layers and all that. :)

Certainly and iptables gives you some flexibility in connection
availability "before" it hits the actual database but without having to
jimmy the production firewall.

Joshua D. Drake

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