Have you ever actually had that happen? I havn't and I've called
support for a number of different issues for various commercial
software. In the end it might boil down to some distribution-specific
issue that they're not willing to fix but honestly that's pretty rare.
Very rare, if you are using a reputable vendor.
even many of the companies that offer support for postgres have this
problem. the explination is always that they can't test every distro out
there so they pick a few and support those (this is one of the reasons why
Ahh and which companies would these be? As a representative of the most
prominent one in the US I can tell you that you are not speaking from a
knowledgeable position.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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