> You can set up your machines however you wish. While I
> generally prefer Debian for standalone systems because
> dselect makes it easy to add and remove things without spending
> a lot of time looking for other files, I've found that recent
> Red Hat is very manageable, especially if you are building a
> custom installation or your own .rpm files.
Speaking of Debian, seems they are the first vendor to ship an
"enhanced" PostgreSQL distribution. Didn't someone report a new
pg_hba.conf option on Debian called "peer" recently. We don't have such
an option and it was never submitted to us a a patch. I don't remember
what it does.
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