Technological advantages over Linux

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 3/16/20 11:48 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Christos Chatzaras wrote:
>>
>>> 1. On Debian, you can run several instances of php-fpm with different
>>> PHP versions in them.
>>>
>>> 2. On Debian, you can install and run several versions of PostgreSQL
>>> simultaneously thanks to the pg_createcluster/pg_lsclusters/...
>>> infrastructure.
>>>
>>> All that from standard packages, without manual compiling and tweaking,
>>> jails etc, with minimal effort.
>>>
>>> Not that FreeBSD could not do that, it just does not do that. Especially
>>> PHP verions are a great PITA.
>>
>> It's not much effort to use jails for these cases. I prefer it this way.
> 
> Using jails will be especially counterproductive in case of PostgreSQL
> because you will not be able to do smart things like
> "pg_update --link --old-datadir XXX --new-datadir YYY".
> 
Running postgresql in jails (several instances in jails on several 
physical machines), never had problem to do update as above.

Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
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