"Gavin M. Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a follow-up to note that Red Hat has graciously donated a 1 year > RHEL subscription and myYearbook is paying Command Prompt to setup the > RHEL box for community use.
Sorry that Red Hat was so slow about that :-( > [ various interesting questions snipped ] > Should people only be able to run PostgreSQL in the context of their > own user? Do we have experience with such setups in the past? What > has worked well and what hasn't? Yeah, I'd vote for people just building private PG installations in their own home directories. I am not aware of any performance-testing reason why we'd want a shared installation, and given that people are likely to be testing many different code variants, a shared installation would be a management nightmare. Also, with personal installations, nobody need have root privileges, which just seems like a real good idea. I don't have any special insights about the other management issues you mentioned, but I'm sure someone does ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org