Re: Best suiting OS

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, S Arvind wrote:
>       What is the best Linux flavor for server which runs postgres alone. The postgres
> must handle greater number of database around 200+. Performance on speed is the vital
> factor.
> Is it FreeBSD, CentOS, Fedora, Redhat xxx??

For starters, FreeBSD isn't Linux at all. Secondly, the other three
options you have listed are all Red Hat versions - not much variety there.

I know that some people swear by Red Hat, but I personally have had
nothing but trouble from such installations, especially when trying to
upgrade to a newer version of Postgres. We have just switched a machine
from Red Hat to Debian because of this very problem. I can heartily
recommend Debian, as it distributes new versions of Postgres very quickly
and allows you to continuously upgrade without any problems. 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.

As far as performance goes (and someone will probably contradict me here)
all the different Linux distributions should be roughly equivalent, as
long as they are up to date and well tuned.

Matthew

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