From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Eliott <eliott100@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: performance issue with a specific query
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:18:07 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Enterprises are not going to compile. They are going to accept the
>> latest support by vendor release.
>>
>> Redhat has a tendency to be incredibly stupid about this particular
>> area of their packaging.
> Stupid how?
Red Hat feels (apparently accurately, judging by their subscription
revenue ;-)) that what RHEL customers want is a platform that's stable
over multi-year application lifespans. So major incompatible changes in
the system software are not looked on with favor. That's why RHEL4
is still shipping PG 7.4.*. You can call it a stupid policy if you
like, but it's hard to argue with success.
However, there will be an RH-supported release of PG 8.1.* as an optional
add-on for RHEL4. Real Soon Now, I hope --- the release date has been
pushed back a couple times already.
regards, tom lane
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