Morning all, I posted this to the Centos list yesterday asking for opinions. As a group with better knowledge of the situation, I thought I may get better responses from this group. Gary ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Hi all, I've got a nice shiny new server which I'm going to build as a LAPP platform. I've just had a quick look for suitable instructions on the best way to configure it and I have a few questions. There are many hits, some better than others. (It is replacing a Fedora 9 server so I'm expecting to have lots of *fun*) 1) 9.2 vs 9.5 Some of the instruction pages I've found install using the standard repositories and install version 9.2 (?) while some others add a postgresql repo and install 9.5 What are people's opinions? In the long term, and I going to have more admin hassle with one over the other? Will porting schemas including stored functions in pl/psql from 8.3 be easier / better with one version over the other? 2) network vs sockets I read somewhere that connecting Apache / PHP to Postgresql is faster if you use sockets rather than usling the loopback i/f. Is this correct? If it is correct, what is the correct connect string if I use the 9.2 or 9.5 RPM's as described above? There seems to be lots of Google content about sockets not working. Is it really that hard? (I use pg_pconnect() to do the connecting)
