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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:37:17 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Gavin M. Roy" <gavinmroy@gmail.com> writes:
> > Just a follow-up to note that Red Hat has graciously donated a 1
> > year RHEL subscription and myYearbook is paying Command Prompt to
> > setup the RHEL box for community use.
>
> Sorry that Red Hat was so slow about that :-(
>
> > [ various interesting questions snipped ]
>
> > Should people only be able to run PostgreSQL in the context of their
> > own user? Do we have experience with such setups in the past? What
> > has worked well and what hasn't?
>
> Yeah, I'd vote for people just building private PG installations in
> their own home directories. I am not aware of any performance-testing
> reason why we'd want a shared installation, and given that people are
> likely to be testing many different code variants, a shared
The only caveat here is that our thinking was that the actual arrays
would be able to be re-provisioned all the time. E.g; test with RAID 10
with x stripe size, Software RAID 6, what is the real difference
between 28 spindles with RAID 5 versus 10?
> installation would be a management nightmare. Also, with personal
> installations, nobody need have root privileges, which just seems
> like a real good idea.
No question.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> I don't have any special insights about the other management issues
> you mentioned, but I'm sure someone does ...
>
> regards, tom lane
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