-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 23:46, Paul Lambert wrote: > Richard Troy wrote: >> >> [snip] My observation is that we have a real shortage of >> quality [snip] >> Meanwhile, what Operating Systems ARE _today_ reliable choices >> upon which to run your Postgres datababse engine? [snip] > > <Insert another plug for an OpenVMS port here> > > Aside from the fact that HP's upper management don't appear to be > aware of the existance of OpenVMS, it's a system that it hard to > find fault with. On the alpha chip anyway... the Itanium is > another story. It would be a very reliable choice on which to run > a high-availability database If PostgreSQL is a typical Unix app and relies on forking lots of children, then I don't think it would run well on VMS. The two (Unix vs VMS) process models are very different, and LIB$SPAWN is very expensive. > As for your young people don't know any better comment... I'm a > young 25 years of age, and I know much greener pastures than > Weenblows or Unix. ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwI47S9HxQb37XmcRAoUSAKCeEAGGvlM9Y6uNTDondV8+vHn/qgCfWKy0 6XRVjSi6vCQcBMo4rmzQyoQ= =ElzL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
