Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-29 Thread Artacus
I'm using Ubuntu for my development server. The live update updated postgres either the day of or the day after 8.3.3 came out. Can't complain about that. Artacus -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-26 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 10:30 PM 6/24/2008, David Siebert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? I just installed OpenSuse and downloaded and compiled the latest version of Postgres. It isn't that big of a hassle but I noticed that almost none of the

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Mayer
Lincoln Yeoh wrote: At 10:30 PM 6/24/2008, David Siebert wrote: Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? Just to add one more slightly different philosophy. For servers I manage, I run the most conservative and slow changing distros that only update security releases (Debian

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-25 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
--On Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:30:14 AM -0400 David Siebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? I run most of my postgres servers on Debian. I really love it, because once a new major version comes out you can very easy install it parallel to your

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-25 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-06-24 16:30, David Siebert wrote: Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? I'd go for CentOS 5.2 (or better RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2, if you can afford it, as $349/year for basic support can save you several hours of problem solving). But by default CentOS5/RHEL5 have

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-25 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, David Siebert wrote: Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? You didn't define what best means for you. If you want to always want to stay current with new releases, the RedHat/Fedora packages available at http://www.postgresql.org/download are on average

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-25 Thread David Siebert
Well I am kind of stuck using OpenSuse. Not a bad distro and is the one we use in our office for production work. I like CentOS myself for database work and tend to use that for test systems here since I manage them myself. I was more wondering if someone had made a Postgres centric distro yet.

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Siebert) writes: Well I am kind of stuck using OpenSuse. Not a bad distro and is the one we use in our office for production work. I like CentOS myself for database work and tend to use that for test systems here since I manage them myself. I was more wondering if

[GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-24 Thread David Siebert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? I just installed OpenSuse and downloaded and compiled the latest version of Postgres. It isn't that big of a hassle but I noticed that almost none of the big distros keep all that up to date with

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-24 Thread Jorge Godoy
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 11:30:14 David Siebert wrote: Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? I just installed OpenSuse and downloaded and compiled the latest version of Postgres. It isn't that big of a hassle but I noticed that almost none of the big distros keep all that up to

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:30 AM, David Siebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which disto is best for running a Postgres server? That is the subject of many a holy flame war. FreeBSD 7.0 seems to currently be regarded as being one of the top

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Lane
Jorge Godoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 24 June 2008 11:30:14 David Siebert wrote: I was wondering if anybody has made an Postgres centric distro? I'm running OpenSuSE 11.0 and I have PostgreSQL 8.3.1 right from the installation DVD. Fedora 9 likewise shipped with PG 8.3.1. It's

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-24 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 2:12p -0400 on Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Tom Lane wrote: Jorge Godoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 24 June 2008 11:30:14 David Siebert wrote: I was wondering if anybody has made an Postgres centric distro? I'm running OpenSuSE 11.0 and I have PostgreSQL 8.3.1 right from the installation

Re: [GENERAL] Probably been asked a hundred times before.

2008-06-24 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Kevin Hunter wrote: Short of a response, I've read a number of reports that given some tuning FreeBSD 7.0 is the current top performer. Those reports are all not quite right and I'm trying to get time to fully debunk them in PostgreSQL land. First off, they were