On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:30 AM, David Siebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Which disto is best for running a Postgres server?
That is the subject of many a holy flame war. FreeBSD 7.0 seems to currently be regarded as being one of the top performers. I use ubuntu because it's easier to maintain and it provides very good performance > I just installed OpenSuse and downloaded and compiled the latest version > of Postgres. It isn't that big of a hassle but I noticed that almost > none of the big distros keep all that up to date with Postgres as far as > what they have in their repositories. Ubuntu does, and there are the PGDG rpms on the postgresql website that work on RHEL / Centos / Whitebox linux quite nicely. > I was wondering if anybody has made an Postgres centric distro? Just a > nice stripped down server Distro that is ideal for running a database > server on? There's been a few pg_live CDs floating around. They're more of a demo / super easy setup type of thing, not intended for production use. But they are very handy for trying out pgsql. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general