-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:37:17 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "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 The only caveat here is that our thinking was that the actual arrays would be able to be re-provisioned all the time. E.g; test with RAID 10 with x stripe size, Software RAID 6, what is the real difference between 28 spindles with RAID 5 versus 10? > installation would be a management nightmare. Also, with personal > installations, nobody need have root privileges, which just seems > like a real good idea. No question. Joshua D. Drake > > 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 > - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHK412ATb/zqfZUUQRAg4eAJ0YubwkLQ3mU0st5jPhUnC6dWrqeACeMjQe TFxunw+efuh3XNtMv+whKBI= =RzC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly