On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:53:19 Christophe Pettus wrote: > > I'm moving from a long time in BSD-land to using Linux. I've always > > been in the habit of building PostgreSQL from the source tarballs. On > > Linux, is there an advantage either way to using the RPMs as opposed > > to building from source? Thanks! > Just to offer another opinion, source compiles are much easier to control, you're not subject to the author's feelings on certain options. Also, RPMs usually over-write a version of PG when you upgrade, so you can't run multiple versions side-by-side, and upgrading becomes tougher (unless you have a second box that is). Just my 2 cents. --Scott
