RHEL 3 & postgresql
Andrew Mobbs
If I was Redhat trying to make money from selling Linux I'd target
expensive corporate servers, supporting costly business activies,
requiring stable, well supported, well integrated servers. Like database
servers for example.
It would be really stupid to sell a server version of your OS, which
has a PostgreSQL package, including documentation telling you to start
the database with pg_ctl or postmaster, also include createdb, vacuumdb
and similar wrapper scripts... but not the actual database server.
More info here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=26220.1068736090%40sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Mobbs - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~andrewm/
Nick Kew
at the keyboard of Andrew Mobbs <and...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> It would be really stupid to sell a server version of your OS, which
> has a PostgreSQL package, including documentation telling you to start
> the database with pg_ctl or postmaster, also include createdb, vacuumdb
> and similar wrapper scripts... but not the actual database server.
Don't you believe it! There are admins out there who won't notice ...
Some years ago, I had to do some programming (on Irix). I kept on
asking for a C compiler. The sysop insisted it was there and I just had
to find it.
It was quite some time before we finally forced the issue, and sat down
(me+sysop+client) to find out that the "package" the sysop insisted was
the C compiler was in fact a *release note* for a C compiler.
Of course, the compiler was there on his installation discs, waiting
to be installed.
[1] or maybe it was tapes, though I think I recollect it as early-CDROM.
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Nick Kew