wanting to avoid religious warfare, I'm curious if there may be some who would have recommendations for what operating system is 'best' to run postgresql 8.x on.. I've used postgresql 7.x on FreeBSD. It was already. But, I'm getting sucked into the linux world and have found Suse 9.3 a pretty good distro. Since I've chosen a packaged distro, I realize that I depend upon 'them' to keep me updated with criticals and other bug fixes wrt postrgresql. That may be consider bad by some, good by others. I'm more concerned though about the complete experience, i.e. postgresql performance on Linux vs Bsd vs Windows... Maintainability.. Stability... os tweeks that were really needed to make pg work well, etc. I would really like to hear from those who have used postgresql on multiple operating systems.. thanks. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"