On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> I don't believe it is. I see no problem in adding information about the > Oracle linux distribution, just like we have information about Oracle > Solaris. This is about providing a service to our users, after all.
Thank you, I appreciate your support. We have users that contacted us because they want to run newer versions of PostgreSQL on OL. That's why I reached out to this list.
> Now if Devrim doesn't want to spend time verifying the packages for Oracle > Linux, that's of course his decision.
Absolutely.
> But we can certainly list what the distribution default is. But we could then specifically list under the > section of "PostgreSQL Yum Repository" which distributions are supported there.
Yes, I think it's fine to make that distinction. The top part of http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ first explains what versions of PG are included by default in which versions of RHEL and its derivatives. It then points to the yum repo, but without making a clear indication which distributions have been tested explicitly (and are thus considered "supported"?). If you go to http://yum.postgresql.org/, it talks about "available platforms", listing RHEL, CentOS and SL (among other RPM-based distros).
> (Though in the end I think it would be beneficial to the users if we could > support Oracle Linux as well, its always a matter of resources vs number of > users. There are a lot of debian based distributions that aren't officially > supported by our apt repository either, for example)
Right.
> In fact, we should probably list that there regardless - so people know > which versions are actually supported by that repository. Should we perhaps > even specifically list which versions of each distro?
For the RHEL-based distributions, I think it's sufficient to just state the major version (e.g. RHEL 6, CentOS 6, etc.) - the minor version (e.g. "6.5") just indicates an update release, which is primarily a consolidation of all updates/errate that have accumulated. Each update release within a major release is fully binary compatible (the ABI remains unchanged). A version of PostgreSQL build on RHEL 6.0 will still run on 6.5.
Does Oracle Linux use the same version numbering? Right now it's "RHEL/CentOS/SL 5" - is that equivalent of "Oracle Linux 5", and "RHEL/CentOS/SL 6" is equivalent of "Oracle Linux 6"?
What's the typical abbreviation used for Oracle Linux? OL?