Michal Szymanski wrote:
Currently we use Debian, but it chosen by our OS admnistrator. Now we can change our OS and it is question what Linux edition will be the best. We would like have access to new versions of Postgres as soon as possible, for Debian sometimes we had to wait many weeks for official packages.
Yes, Debian QA can take a couple of weeks for things to reach you after release. From some perspectives that's considered a good thing. If the update is to fix a security bug, it's possible that's a problem instead. In that rare case, you can always learn to build your own packages.
Ultimately, if your true priority is "access to new versions of Postgres as soon as possible", you can do that on any Linux distribution by building from source and potentially packaging the result up as if it were a standard packages. That should be way, way down on the list of things that factor into what version of Linux you deploy though. If you've got support from your administration team using Debian, I think you'd be crazy to switch to another OS just to speed up getting newer versions of PostgreSQL. Put a little time into learning how to build your own packages instead, to work around this one perceived flaw, and you'll be way ahead of the mess that comes with switching distributions altogether.
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