On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Dave Page wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:27 +1100, Andrew wrote: > > > > > Which Linux distro's support Postgres releases the best? Which are > > > best suited in a server vs. development suite of tools? > > > > "Best" is a bit debatable, but Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS have > > very good PostgreSQL support. I'm using both of these, and both sides > > are doing good jobs. > > Ubuntu is the distro that we have the most problems with pgAdmin on. > Apparently there have been distro-specific patches applied to > wxWidgets in the past which haven't played well. It seems better > recently though. > > Both the latest Suse and Ubuntu introduce changes in GTK which will > cause pgAdmin to crash if wxWidgets was built against an older version > of GTK. That can be fixed either by recompiling against the new > llbraries, or setting an environment variable which tells GTK to work > the old way. I expect to see this issue in other distros in the > not-to-distant-future. > > Personally, I'm using Slackware, Fedora 7 and CentOS 5.1, though I > don't run any production systems these days. Most of my work is on > Windows XP and Mac OS X though. > > -- > Dave Page > EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com > PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk
I am new in December to the Postgres/pgadmin suite and have been running both on SuSE 10.0 and 10.3. The RPM's for Postgres I have had no problems with, and the recent 8.2.6 security update came through the SuSE update service without incident on 10.3. I have never bothered with RPM's for pgadmin3 because I have no trouble compiling and installing it, so I always get a more recent version. I would like the opportunity to give this list a little background on how we got where we are, through one set of eyes. I am, I suppose at this point in my 53 year life, "Old School", having cut my teeth on Microlite Unix in '86 (AT&T man pages were the only documentation) followed by SCO Unix. After I learned Unix, I was exposed to MS-DOS, and needless to say it came across as trivially easy. MS-DOS was the last operating system that "they" marketed that worked well, and they didn't even develop the core package. In May of 2001, a vice president of Microsoft declared war on the free software movement when Linux had hit a deeply threatening 1% market share. On the day I learned of this, my Win95 box was retired and I installed Caldera Linux and have not looked back. When Caldera went away I chose SuSE for its superior documentation and have frankly not look seriously at other distros because it proverbially does what I need ... everything. Many of you people out there on this list are using any of many variants of Linux. Each distribution of Linux is like a priceless jewel in the crown of human cooperation, cooperation that you have few other models for in this world. By all means, debate the merit of each distribution, but I must say that Linux is the most beautiful thing that ever happened to computing, and if your distro has trouble with a widget, there will be a fix soon. I feel greatly enriched since I discovered Postgres and pgadmin and what is to me a new programming paradigm of putting the business logic in the database. Everytime I download one of these freely available packages, I marvel. Arthur Knight Hammer -- Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support
