| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> |
| Cc: | S Arvind <arvindwill(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Best suiting OS |
| Date: | 2009-10-01 18:03:36 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.GSO.2.01.0910011354150.14185@westnet.com |
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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. Those
packages are at least as current as their Debian counterparts, and in some
cases the RPMs have been months ahead (I recall there being quite a lag
before Debian supported PG 8.3 for example).
It can be a bit tricky to replace the RHEL version of PostgreSQL with
those, I wrote a walkthrough that covers the non-obvious parts at
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm
The result won't be officially supported by RedHat, but in practice that's
no worse than what you get from the Debian versions.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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