Re: Re: Moving a live production database to different server and postgres release

Unfortunately, the switch to Windows is out of my hands. If it were up
to me I'd stick with BSD. When you say postgres on Windows is known
for its "mediocre performance", do you mean it's slower or buggy? Or
both?

/Ulas

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Ulas Albayrak <ulas(dot)albayrak(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The database is < 10GB and currently on a postgres version 8.2.15 on a
>> BSD system and moving to postgres version 8.4.4 on a windows 2008
>> server. The adding of data is continuous but in small quantities,
>> totaling at about 20MB a day.
>
> Is there are good reason to go to Windows instead of a new BSD system?
>  Windows is a known mediocre performer for postgres.
>
> BTW the slony versions need to match down to the minor rev number.
>

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Ulas Albayrak
ulas(dot)albayrak(at)gmail(dot)com