For people installing PostgreSQL on Solaris with the new packaget, it
will show a greatly improved experience to get PostgreSQL up and running
which was quite a inhibitor in terms of "Love at First Sight". This will
now help people familiar with Solaris have a great first impression of
PostgreSQL and hence lower the barrier of entry to PostgreSQL. With
more than 3.7 million downloads of Solaris 10 already, now PostgreSQL
have accesss to probably a 3.7 million incremental user-base of these
relatively "New" PostgreSQL users.
Regards,
Jignesh
Robert Lor wrote:
With big thanks to Josh Berkus and Devrim Gunduz, I'm happy to
announce that Sun has just released a Solaris distribution of
PostgreSQL 8.1.2 with ready-to-install packages for both Sparc and
x86. These packages are currently in Beta, and we expect to FCS in 2
-3 weeks. The packages, along with an install guide, are available
for download at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/solarispackages/
We have tightly integrated PostgreSQL with Solaris in a manner similar
to the Linux distributions available on postgresql.org. In fact, the
directory structures are identical. Starting with Solaris 10 Update
2, PostgreSQL will be distributed with every copy of Solaris, via
download and physical media.
We welcome any and all feedback on this PostgreSQL Solaris
distribution. Please subscribe to the
solarispackages-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list to give us
feedback: http://pgfoundry.org/mail/?group_id=1000063
BTW, I'm a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems, recently working with
the PostgreSQL community (namely Josh Berkus, Devrim Gunduz, and Gavin
Sherry) on the Solaris Packages Project at PgFoundry, PostgreSQL
performance optimization on Solaris, and leveraging Solaris 10
capabilities (e.g. DTrace) specifically for PostgreSQL. I'll be
posting a Solaris performance tuning guide in a few weeks.
Regards,
Robert Lor
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