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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Lukas Kahwe Smith <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:17:35 +0100
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 17:14 schrieb Lukas Kahwe Smith:
>>>> I read about EnterpriseDB PostGres [1] today. Guess since its open
>>>> source it does not contain DynaTune (or what their auto tuning feature
>>>> for EnterpriseDB is called). Might be a nice addition to be able to get
>>>> this unbundled as a binary .. for this distribution? At any rate another
>>>> PostgreSQL distribution, well not another actually its "the first-ever
>>>> professional-grade distribution".
>>> It's basically PostgreSQL and regular add-on components installed in an 
>>> unusual way.  
>> Unusual?
> 
> It is certainly unusual to not use a standard package format
> (rpm,deb,pkg). 

I must admit I kinda hat my Win32 hat on when I read that, and haven't
really looked at the Linux installer in detail.

Outside of the open source world it is far more normal to have
distro-independent installers - and this is specifically what we wanted
because we want to get PostgreSQL on as many machines as possible.

> Although I have to double check if PeterE is actually
> correct on his linux filesystem standard comment because as I recall non
> standard packages are supposed to go into /opt .

That was my recollection as well. I guess it is a little odd to have the
sub components in the PostgreSQL installation root, but we do similarly
wierd things in pginstaller to make everything work as it should without
having lots of copies of libpq and friends.

The important thing to note is that it is entirely self contained, won't
futz up your filesystem with fluff, and can be uninstalled.

/D

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