| From: | Scott Mead <scott(dot)lists(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Building from source vs RPMs |
| Date: | 2009-07-29 12:51:40 |
| Message-ID: | d3ab2ec80907290551h21181a03ie1fa61af621ba8c0@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:53:19 Christophe Pettus wrote:
> > I'm moving from a long time in BSD-land to using Linux. I've always
> > been in the habit of building PostgreSQL from the source tarballs. On
> > Linux, is there an advantage either way to using the RPMs as opposed
> > to building from source? Thanks!
>
Just to offer another opinion, source compiles are much easier to control,
you're not subject to the author's feelings on certain options. Also, RPMs
usually over-write a version of PG when you upgrade, so you can't run
multiple versions side-by-side, and upgrading becomes tougher (unless you
have a second box that is).
Just my 2 cents.
--Scott
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