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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:09:32 -0500
From:      Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Technological advantages over Linux
Message-ID:  <57fa21ef-83d3-7a62-19f6-5475ffa437b2@kicp.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20200317044821.GA19098@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On 3/16/20 11:48 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Christos Chatzaras wrote:
>>
>>> 1. On Debian, you can run several instances of php-fpm with different
>>> PHP versions in them.
>>>
>>> 2. On Debian, you can install and run several versions of PostgreSQL
>>> simultaneously thanks to the pg_createcluster/pg_lsclusters/...
>>> infrastructure.
>>>
>>> All that from standard packages, without manual compiling and tweaking,
>>> jails etc, with minimal effort.
>>>
>>> Not that FreeBSD could not do that, it just does not do that. Especially
>>> PHP verions are a great PITA.
>>
>> It's not much effort to use jails for these cases. I prefer it this way.
> 
> Using jails will be especially counterproductive in case of PostgreSQL
> because you will not be able to do smart things like
> "pg_update --link --old-datadir XXX --new-datadir YYY".
> 
Running postgresql in jails (several instances in jails on several 
physical machines), never had problem to do update as above.

Valeri
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