On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:00 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. I've used RHEL, Centos, and Ubuntu as postgresql servers. Latest servers are Ubuntu because I needed a stable release with a late model kernel to support and scale on 48 cores. That said there were some serious bumps in the road to getting 10.04 to work on our servers. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
