On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Michael Gould <mgould@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I know that this is probably a "religion" issue but we are looking to move > Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active > directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via VMWare ESXi. One > of the reasons is that we want to use a 64 bit Postgres server and the UUID > processing contrib module does not provide a 64 bit version for Windows. I > would also assume that the database when properly tuned will probably run > faster in a *inx environment. > > What and why should I look at certain distributions? It appears from what I > read, Ubanta is a good desktop but not a server. Whilst I won't discourage you from a move to Linux, which I think is a good idea in general (and personally, my choice is RHEL - or CentOS if you want free - for a production server), I will note that Hiroshi Saito has ported ossp-uuid to Win64 now, and we're working on getting it included in the next update of PG 9.0. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
