Re: best OS and HW for postgreSQL

On Sep 25, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On 9/25/06, Jim Nasby <jimn@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
>> As for hardware, until recently, AMD was the un-disputed king when it
>> came to running PostgreSQL (and databases in general). But the newer
>> Intel CPUs seem to have surpassed the Opteron. I believe there's a
>> tweakers.net article floating around that did some performance
>> testing with the new CPUs.
>
> http://tweakers.net/reviews/646/13
>
> cug
>

Jim,

I run the following :

Hardware          : Mix of Macs (G4's & G5's)
OS                : [OSX], & [OSX Server]
Each machine runs : mySQL & pgSQL, Apache, PHP, Perl, OpenSSL, GD,
etc...
One machine runs  : 4D Web Server (4th Dimension - Cross Platform
Client Server RDBMS)

If somebody absolutely wants Intel, the new Macs use Intel
Processors, and run (OSX BSD Unix) and (Windows XP), the ease of
working in the Terminal Shell (tcsh, bash, sh, csh, etc) is awesome.
You can drag items from the desktop such as a folder(s), or file(s)
and the paths are copied onto the terminal.

You can also do simple things like type [% open /usr/local/src /etc ]
<return> and window(s) containing the contents for those dirs will
open at the GUI level. I don't know if linux provides such a close
interaction between the GUI, and the shell environment. On OSX, I am
always working in both environments at the same time.

Also the greatest editor on the planet "BBEdit" runs on OSX, nothing
even comes close.

Most applications, including the operating system can be automated
using AppleScript. The Mac allows the user/developer to record
scripts at the application, or OS level, modify, save and run them
easily via AppleScript. You can even call AppleScripts from unix
shell scripts, and vice-versa.

The whole OSX environment compares to Linux Variants that I have
seen, much the same as an iPod compares to other mp3 players.

For example you can type [% sudo chmod -R theUser:theGroup [drag
folder(s), or file(s) from the desktop onto the terminal]<return>
instead of typing the paths, and that's it...

About a year ago I joined a Linux user's group and got to see demos
on different variants. Nothing even came close to the integration
provided by Apple's OSX. After attending the Linux user group for
several months I realized how fortunate I was. In my opinion the
complete integration provided by OSX was light years ahead of
anything else I ever saw at the meetings. The guys that ran the group
worked full time with Linux Systems, so they were well experienced.

I remember one evening at the user group they screwed around for the
whole meeting trying to get some images from one of the user's
digital camera, finally I asked them if I could see the camera and
within a couple of minutes I and was doing a slide show with the
images. I thought once again, how incredibly lucky I was to be
running OSX...

I've been programming the Mac, pretty much full time, since 1987. I
do cross platform testing, and I am always so happy when I get back
to the Mac...

Best Regards,

Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas