On 4/19/21 10:26 AM, Dave Page wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:52 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net
> <mailto:andrew@dunslane.net>> wrote:
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> My understanding from Microsoft staff at conferences is that
> Azure's PostgreSQL SAS runs on linux, not WIndows.
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>
> This is from a regular Azure Database for PostgreSQL single server:
>
> postgres=> select version();
> version
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 11.6, compiled by Visual C++ build 1800, 64-bit
> (1 row)
>
> And this is from the new Flexible Server preview:
>
> postgres=> select version();
> version
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 12.6 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu
> 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12) 5.4.0 20160609, 64-bit
> (1 row)
>
> So I guess it's a case of "it depends".
>
Good to know. A year or two back at more than one conference I tried to enlist some of these folks in helping us with
WindowsPostgreSQL and their reply was that they knew nothing about it because they were on Linux :-) I guess things
changeover time.
cheers
andrew
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