On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 07:24 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Jussi Mikkola <jussi.mikkola@bonware.com> wrote:
> > Now that Oracle is selling support for RedHat linux, does this mean that
> > Oracle will also support PostgreSQL?
>
> I really doubt it. IIRC, RedHat no longer supports PostgreSQL (or
> their variant RedHat Database) directly; and the version that was
> supported was quite old.
>
> Tom Lane would know more about version-specifics... but I don't see
> Oracle supporting PostgreSQL or MySQL any time soon. Just because
> they're part of the distro doesn't mean they're totally supported by
> the Linux vendor.
I bet if I bought Unbreakable Linux and asked for PostgreSQL support
they would support it. Distributions vendors will typically support
whatever they ship on their core CD.
Joshua D. Drake
>
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