Re: Building from source vs RPMs

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 packages
(RPMs, debs, etc) easier to administrate. Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora
and Red Hat has packages for many PostgreSQL versions. See here:

http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux

-HTH.

Regards,
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