Hi,
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:59:15PM +0100, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>> They should, since it's also a RHEL6 derivative, albeit with
>> modifications. Their current version actually ships with 9.2 by
>> default: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2013.09-packages/
>
> Well, "modifications" means change, and we don't review those changes,
> so I don't know how we can say it works. Same with Oracle Linux, which
> I thought also had some changes compared to REL. This is different from
> CentOS which I think says they are the same.
Oracle Linux ships with a different kernel, yes. However, this does
not affect userland
applications like PostgreSQL. OL userland remains fully compatible to
upstream RHEL,
similar to CentOS or SL, the APIs and ABIs do not differ.
Lenz
-- Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com> - http://www.lenzg.net/
