Re: Upgrade to Red Hat Linux 9 broke PostgreSQL

I heard that the debian rev system is MUCH better, but never got accepted 
because of the market weight of RH. Is this so?

Network Administrator wrote:
> When you say "forces upgrades" what do you mean?
> 
> I might do things differently- I download the tarball, compile, dump and restore
> my system.  I've never have Postgres **not** compile on my Slackware boxes but
> I've had **tons** of issues with RPM disto's (I've consulted on RedHat &
> Mandrake personally) with even smaller packages things so I don't use it much.
> 
> Seems to me you should **always** be able to compile software.
> 
> -$0.02
>