Re: Postgres on Linux - was 'Complete breakdown of pgadmin when trying to connect to server or modify properties of tables of views'

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:18:45 pm Pedro Doria Meunier wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> We've had zero problems with a highly-customized (optimized) Fedora 6
> distro.
> That server serves 1000's of requests per minute and still performant.
> We've also used it with FC7 and 8 with no issues whatsoever...
> Josh is right: those RPMs sink right in... ;-) (although we've
> recompiled pgsql)
>
> Regards,
> Pedro.
>
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:53 -0400, Josh wrote:
> > > Which Linux distro's support Postgres releases the best? Which are
> > > best suited in a server vs. development suite of tools?
> >
> > Andrew, I've always had excellent luck with CentOS, which is a clone of
> > RedHat Enterprise Linux. The RPM's for RHEL that you find on the
> > Postgres website drop right in without issue.
> >
> > http://www.centos.org
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -J

Similarly, no problems with postgresql over the last four years on Mandriva,
pclos and fedora. Runnng on various architectures on dev test and prod. Must
recommend local compilation of pgadmin3, if you use it, on any distro though.

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regards

Bruce