Re: [GENERAL] Building from source vs RPMs

2009-07-29 Thread Scott Mead
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:53:19 Christophe Pettus wrote: > > I'm moving from a long time in BSD-land to using Linux. I've always > > been in the habit of building PostgreSQL from the source tarballs. On > > Linux, is there an advantage

Re: [GENERAL] Building from source vs RPMs

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:53:19 Christophe Pettus wrote: > I'm moving from a long time in BSD-land to using Linux. I've always > been in the habit of building PostgreSQL from the source tarballs. On > Linux, is there an advantage either way to using the RPMs as opposed > to building from source?

Re: [GENERAL] Building from source vs RPMs

2009-07-27 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:53 -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote: > On Linux, is there an advantage either way to using the RPMs as > opposed to building from source? In terms of performance and functionality, there is no difference. On the other hand, many people, including me, find precompiled packa