Re: Upgrading: So now you tell me!!?!? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Hacksaw
Subject Re: Upgrading: So now you tell me!!?!?
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Msg-id 200303272325.h2RNPkmg008019@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com
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In response to Re: Upgrading: So now you tell me!!?!?  ("Steve Wolfe" <nw@codon.com>)
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>  That's the nature of the beast with RPM's, or any other package manager,
> for that matter.  When you allow someone else to do the work and make the
> decisions for you, you're not always guaranteed that their decisions are
> going to be what you want.

Of course not. However, RPM's can be set up to prevent disaster, and this is
what I am trying to arrange.

>   Compiling PG (and most Unix software) from source really isn't that
> hard.  Some utilities rarely, if ever need to be updated, and when they
> do, using RPM's is just fine.  But for things like PG, I personally feel
> that you do yourself a great disservice by not compiling it yourself.  Of
> course, YMMV.

Unless there are compile time variables that need to be set there is no real
advantage to compiling on your own, save for maybe getting a small speed up
because you are compiling for a particular CPU.

I'd be surprised if there were any other real advantage. This is a pretty
mature product, and not one that requires a great deal of knowledge about the
system it's going to be run on, like a package requiring a GL graphics card
and sound.

Everything after that is going to be buffer sizes and other small tweaks that
can be done to the machine or on the command line.

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