On Wednesday, July 6, 2016, Jonathan S. Katz <
jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2016, at 3:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/06/2016 12:02 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> On 07/06/2016 07:55 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> On 07/06/2016 10:54 AM, Rader, David wrote:
>>>> I am concerned that the "bare metal" description is misleading to users,
>>>> since on both the Linux and Windows installers an OS is still required.
>>>> Suggesting that the installer can setup a full stack including OS will
>>>> be confusing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Bare metal is an industry standard term for, "not virtualized".
>>
>> it is but it is usually used in the context of operating systems - so I
>> kinda agree with david here that personally I would expect something
>> that is for "bare metal" is something that can directly be installed on
>> physical hardware (as in an OS).
>
> I am good either way, I was just expressing my experience.
Does anyone strongly contest to the current language? If not I will apply the patch tonight.
Jonathan
Previously the descriptions were held to a bar requiring claims to be based on something other than pure marketing. There is nothing in the EDB installer to make it more cloud ready or bare metal ready or virtualization ready than the standard Postgres source. Applying this will set the standard that marketing fluff is ok.
Dave
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