On Jan 19, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Roland Voegtli wrote:
It's gotten a lot easier since version 8 came out
Better: yes, good: not yet. Still need to fiddle with /etc/
sysctl.conf and
shared memory stuff. Not exactly what I like.
And there seem to be conflicts with the Apple postgres instance for
Apple remote
desktop, and the postgres user supplied by apple.
And this is just for starters... I tried to move to postgresql
several times,
and each time I spent hours to just try to get it running. In this
respect,
mysql is LOTS easier. But the licensing fiasco forces me to get my
feets wet
with postgresql anyway.
I should point out that I'm moving all my work with servers and
suchlike into virtual machines. The (currently free beta) VMWare for
Mac works very well. And VMWare has lots of free, ready-to-go VMs
configured for all sorts of tasks. Really nice thing is you can have
your virtual machine all set up nicely as you want it, and then run
it anywhere there is a VMWare virtual machine (and these are free for
Windows and Linux -- with any luck, it will be free for the Mac as
well).
You can also do great things like backing up the virtual machine
before you try changing things, having versions with different
options set up, and so on.
It may well be practical to deploy the server just by setting up the
VM on your client's machine.
This nicely avoids such things as bumping into an instance of
Postgres running on your own machine. The only downside I can see is
a slight (with a non-beta VMware, typically only a few percent)
performance hit.
Regards,
Guyren G Howe
Relevant Logic LLC
guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com
REALbasic, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python programming
PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting
Technical writing and training
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