From: | Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> |
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To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | S Arvind <arvindwill(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Best suiting OS |
Date: | 2009-10-02 11:39:39 |
Message-ID: | alpine.DEB.2.00.0910021232050.19472@aragorn.flymine.org |
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On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>> For comparison, with Red Hat, you will need to upgrade to a whole new
>> distribution whenever you want updated software, which is a much bigger
>> undertaking.
>
> This is somewhat true for larger packages, but it's not the case for
> PostgreSQL. You certainly can grab newer RPMs from
> https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgcore and install them.
The reason we switched that machine to Debian was due to the
postgresql-devel package being missing for Red Hat. We need that package
in order to install some of our more interesting extensions. A quick look
at http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/fedora/fedora-9-x86_64/ indicates that
this package is still missing. Because Debian includes Postgres in its
main package repository and uses automated build tools, Debian is unlikely
to suffer the same fate.
Matthew
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