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
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?
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