It seems there are certain projects running at the moment that will eventually make possible
to run PostgreSQL on FreeBSD's jail (virtual server on plain iron speed).
Pre jail resource limits:
http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2010/07/resource-containers-project.html
Further generalization improvements:
http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-jail-based-virtualization.html
"Further, the project includes generalization of the virtual network stack framework, factoring out common code.
This will provide an infrastructure and will ease virtualization of further subsystems like SYSV/Posix IPC with minimal
overhead.
All further virtualized subsystems will immediately benefit from shared debugging facilities, an essential feature for
earlyadopters
of the new technology."
By solving the SYSV/IPC problems, PostgreSQL will be able to be run on jails, even easier and more robustly
than it is the case now.
Lets hope those guys will deliver smth good.
--
Achilleas Mantzios
