On 04/11/2016 10:46 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Doesn't match my experience at all. The vast majority of my customers
> refer to it by version number.
>
> Also, considering Ubuntu is by far the largest used Linux distro, I
> am not sure how much of that is happening in practice.
>
>
> Also very different from my experience. Outside things like docker
> (which most people don't run postgres on - yet?), redhat/centos is
> significantly bigger with my customers.
I should clarify:
When dealing with bare metal -- by far our customer base is
RedHat/CentOS. When dealing with anything cloud, it is by far Debian or
Ubuntu.
>
> Just as a point of input - clearly our customers fall in fairly
> significantly different groups,and we need to be able to deal with both.
>
Absolutely.
>
> I should note that I am not suggesting we forgo version names but
> adding something that is fun could be useful... Something to think
> about.
>
>
>
> FWIW, I believe redhat also has such "code names". Except really
> *nobody* use them there...
True.
JD
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