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Jeremiah Elliott wrote:
| Gaetano Mendola wrote: | |> Barry S wrote: |> |>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Christine Desmuke" wrote: |>> |>>> Hello: |>>> |>>> At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the |>>> use of Gentoo Linux for a production PostgreSQL server. There have been |>>> a couple of comments lately that it is not such a great idea; does |>>> anyone have specific experience they'd be willing to share? |>>> |>> |>> <snip> |>> |>> I'm an ex-Gentoo admin, not because gentoo isn't fun, just that you need |>> to really really like to constantly fiddle with it to keep it happy. |>> |>> The worst thing is to have not done an 'emerge world' in 2 months, only |>> to discover that there are now 99 pending updates. |> |> |> |> Do you was obliged to catch them ? |> |> Gaetano | I use gentoo and RHEL. My biggest beef with redhat is that their rpm of | postgres is of a rather old version, so I end up downloading the source | tar and compiling it my self. Also I would really like to be running XFS | on all my databases servers, but the only fs I can run on the redhat | servers is ext3. | -jeremiah
And how RH can delivery a Postgres upgrade if it require an initdb ? The reason as already discussed is a leak of pg_upgrade that can permit the upgrade without perform a cicle of:
dump-install-initdb-crossedfingers-reload
and even if the pg_upgrade was existing for sure I'll not trust my data to an automatic upgrade.
Regards Gaetano Mendola
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