"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:21:21PM -0400, John Vincent wrote: >> Actually it's on my radar. I was looking for a precompiled build first (we >> actually checked the Pervasive and Bizgres sites first since we're >> considering a support contract) before going the self-compiled route. When I >> didn't see a pre-compiled build available, I started looking at the >> developer archives and got a little worried that I wouldn't want to base my >> job on a self-built Postgres on a fairly new (I'd consider Power 5 fairly >> new) platform. > Well, pre-compiled isn't going to make much of a difference > stability-wise. What you will run into is that very few people are > running PostgreSQL on your hardware, so it's possible you'd run into > some odd corner cases. Power 5 is just a PPC64 platform isn't it? Red Hat's been building PG for PPC64 for years, and I've not heard any problems reported. Now, if you're using a non-gcc compiler then maybe that track record doesn't carry over to whatever you are using ... regards, tom lane
