For people installing PostgreSQL on Solaris with the new packaget, it
will show a greatly improved experience to get PostgreSQL up and running
which was quite a inhibitor in terms of "Love at First Sight". This will
now help people familiar with Solaris have a great first impression of
PostgreSQL and hence lower the barrier of entry to PostgreSQL. With
more than 3.7 million downloads of Solaris 10 already, now PostgreSQL
have accesss to probably a 3.7 million incremental user-base of these
relatively "New" PostgreSQL users.
Regards,
Jignesh
Robert Lor wrote:
>
> With big thanks to Josh Berkus and Devrim Gunduz, I'm happy to
> announce that Sun has just released a Solaris distribution of
> PostgreSQL 8.1.2 with ready-to-install packages for both Sparc and
> x86. These packages are currently in Beta, and we expect to FCS in 2
> -3 weeks. The packages, along with an install guide, are available
> for download at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/solarispackages/
>
> We have tightly integrated PostgreSQL with Solaris in a manner similar
> to the Linux distributions available on postgresql.org. In fact, the
> directory structures are identical. Starting with Solaris 10 Update
> 2, PostgreSQL will be distributed with every copy of Solaris, via
> download and physical media.
>
> We welcome any and all feedback on this PostgreSQL Solaris
> distribution. Please subscribe to the
> solarispackages-general@pgfoundry.org mailing list to give us
> feedback: http://pgfoundry.org/mail/?group_id=1000063
>
> BTW, I'm a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems, recently working with
> the PostgreSQL community (namely Josh Berkus, Devrim Gunduz, and Gavin
> Sherry) on the Solaris Packages Project at PgFoundry, PostgreSQL
> performance optimization on Solaris, and leveraging Solaris 10
> capabilities (e.g. DTrace) specifically for PostgreSQL. I'll be
> posting a Solaris performance tuning guide in a few weeks.
>
> Regards,
> Robert Lor
>
>
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