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On 9/10/07, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are looking at getting a server for running postgresql. Only
> > postgresql, a dedicated machine. Since we know FreeBSD very well, we
> > plan on using it as the OS.
>
> You might want to wait a little until 7.0 or until some more important
> bits get MFC'ed to 6.x:
>
> http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/postgresql-scaling-on-6-2-and-7-0

I second this, FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT is frozen so I guess it's ok to use
it, and I use it my production server which really enjoy the C2D E660
and 2 GB ram, with AMD64 arch.

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Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/