Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 18:09 -0500, Colin Freas wrote: >> My argument is we should use the latest stable version of Postgres. >> His take is we ought to use the latest version provided by Red Hat. >> (This is for a set of Red Hat Enterprise boxes.) > AFAIK, if you want support from Red Hat, you have to use the packages > provided by Red Hat. If you use any 3rd party or unsupported packages, > they won't support your system. So it depends on you. As the main guy on the hook for that support from Red Hat ;-), the above is true as far as it goes, but on the whole I'd have to say that you are probably better off using the latest community release and relying on the community mailing lists for support. The RHEL releases are targeted at people who froze their application platforms a year ago (for RHEL4) or more than that (for RHEL3), so if you are just now choosing your platform then neither scenario fits you --- so unless you want to wait for RHEL5 you're sort of falling between the cracks. Red Hat is not unaware of this gap, and is close on to introducing support for PG 8.1 in RHEL4, but it'll be separate from the base RHEL4 product ... and it won't be out for a month or two. http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/departments/red_hat_speaks/ regards, tom lane
