[wellylug] My new linux server

[Brent Wood]

As a DBA under one hat & a hardware vendor under another, I'd say there
shouldn't be a problem :-) All pretty standard stuff with reputable brands.

Unless you wanna reformat at some stage, you may be better off setting up with
two drives & setting up your RAID partitions at day one. I know there are
claims that you can resize & modify working partitions, but I have yet to see
it work when software RAID is involved...) 

The AMD64 platform with a 64 bit Linux has some very good benchmarks under
Postgres, but for a basic testbed you prob won't see much difference. Better
I/O, as well as faster floating point/integer. Not quite as smooth as a P4 for
multitasking when hyperthreading actually works though...

(I'm in the middle of trying to find out why under Ubuntu AMD64 I can't compile
Postgres v8 with readline support. But I've only had Ubuntu installed for a day
or so, so a few teething issues are the norm....)


Have you played with Oracle Spatial or PostGIS at all?

Cheers,

   Brent Wood

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> Abhinav
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