On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:04:56PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Please don't. At least not on the PostgreSQL web site nor in the docs.
> And no, I don't run my production servers on Windows either.
>
> For good or ill, we made a decision years ago to do a proper Windows
> port. I think that it's actually worked out reasonably well. All
> operating systems have warts. Not long ago I tended to advise people not
> to run mission critical Postgresql on Linux unless they were *very*
> careful, due to the over-commit issue.
Yes, and IIRC we documented the overcommit stuff as well.
This isn't about OS holy wars, it's about providing information so that
people can make an informed decision about what OS to run their database
on.
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Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
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