On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:16:46PM -0800, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
Thanks for the feedback thus far. I should also mention I use freebsd for other stuff, but I am mainly asking in peoples experience, which is the best for PostgreSQL to live on specifically. In terms of a nice smp high end scsi system. Sorry for the lack of specifics on that before.
i've built several billing systems for long distance companies using pgsql on FreeBSD since '97. i've found them to be quite stable and robust, including uniprocessor and SMP, using raw big disks, hardware RAID, and also the incumbent vinum software RAID.
i've found upgrading the core OS, as well as upgrading pgsql and other apps, to be fairly clean and troublefree.
Since this is a "me too" kinda thread, I'll just say "me too".
Not nearly as long a history, only been working with PostgreSQL for about 2 years, but I've been relying on FreeBSD since 98/99, and it's never let me down.
Not saying that NetBSD and OpenBSD aren't great systems as well, I just started with FreeBSD, and I've never had need for anything else.
Gavin
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
I'm currently one of the targets of SCO's linux licensing extortion
business plan, and am contemplating switching to one of the BSD's to
avoid any potential problems. I'm curious which BSD people prefer for
large scale databases and why. Any pointers as to which I should test out?
for the longest time, the BSDs have been split as:
FreeBSD - i386 rock solid NetBSD - work on as many platforms as possible OpenBSD - be as secure as possible
There is alot of code sharing between them all though, so, IMHO, alot of it is personal preferences ... I've been using FreeBSD since '95, and other then having a habit of finding (and, usually pushing) its limits, I've been most happy with it ...
-- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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