Re: Adding Oracle Linux to the Linux Download pages

Hi Magnus,

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

> We should only add those if we are willing to support Oracle Linux.
> Otherwise we could just make a footnote somewhere saying that they should
> work there too, but are not supported. At least my understanding is that we
> do fully support RHEL+CentOS+SL+Fedora.

Can you please elaborate on what "supported" means in this context?

http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ primarily lists what
versions of PostgreSQL are actually shipped as part of the
distribution already, they are usually "supported" by the distribution
itself. So adding Oracle Linux to the list of RHEL derivatives that
include PostgreSQL by default per my suggestion here would not have
any additional support implications for the PostgreSQL project per se.

> If we can equally well support Oracle it should be added to that list, if not it should be added some other
> way. But if the RPMs do work, I agree it's probably a good idea to at least mention it.

Thanks. Similar to CentOS or Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux is built
from the very same RHEL source packages, so it's fully binary
compatible. In fact, it would be considered a bug if there is any kind
of incompatibility.

Lenz
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