On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:35:53 -0600 Dave Crooke <dcrooke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For any given database engine, regardless of the marketing and support > stance, there is only one true "primary" enterprise OS platform that > most big mission critical sites use, and is the best supported and > most stable platform for that RDBMS. For Oracle, that's HP-UX (but 10 > years ago, it was Solaris). For PostgreSQL, it's Linux. I am interested in this response and am wondering if this is just Dave's opinion or some sort of official PostgreSQL policy. I am learning PostgreSQL by running it on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE. So far I have found no problems and have even read a few posts that are critical of Linux's handling of fsync. I really don't want to start a Linux vs FreeBSD flame war (I like Linux and use that too, though not for database use), I am just intrigued by the claim that Linux is somehow the natural OS for running PostgreSQL. I think if Dave had said "for PostgreSQL, it's a variant of Unix" I wouldn't have been puzzled. So I suppose the question is: what is it about Linux specifically (as contrasted with other Unix-like OSes, especially Open Source ones) that makes it particularly suitable for running PostgreSQL? Best, Tony -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
