Re: Performance on Sun Fire X4150 x64 (dd, bonnie++, pgbench)

--On tisdag, juli 22, 2008 01.20.52 +0200 Emil Pedersen
<emil.pedersen@its.uu.se> wrote:

>
> [...]
>
>> Yes I'd definitely prefer to go 8.3 as well but there are a couple
>> reasons for now I have to suck it up:
>> - 8.2 is the one in the 7.10 repository.
>> - I need plr as well and 8.3-plr debian package does not exist yet.
>>
>> (I know in both cases we could recompile and install it from there,
>> but ...)
>
> At least on debian it was quite easy to "backport" 8.3.3 from sid
> to etch using apt-get's source and build-dep functions.  That way
> you get a normal installable package.
>
> I'm not sure, but given the similarity I would guess it won't be
> much harder on ubuntu.

I should have said that I was talking about the postgresql, I
missed the plr part.  I appologize for the noice.

// Emil