On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Michael Meskes wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:19:35PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote:
I've been looking all over but I can't seem to see a company that is providing *up-to-date* postgresql support and provides their own supported binaries. Am I barking up the wrong tree entirely here?
Why do you insist on "their own binaries"? I think there are several companies out there providing support for a given version of PostgreSQL and doubt they all ask for their own binaries. At least we do not.
We don't either, nor do we worry about specific platforms ...
And I know CommandPrompt doesn't care either.
I don't even know what it means. If I were to build the 7.4 source, install it somewhere, tarball it up would that then count as providing our own supported binaries (assuming the support service is also offered of course)? Surely it's fairly common for someone to sell support and be happy to include the service of supplying the binaries so if requested, what's so special about it?
Nigel Andrews
Nigel,
The name of the game is "warranty". PostgreSQL is BSD license and therefore there is no warranty. A good support company will pick up the risk and fix bugs, backport bugs and features, and provide "improved" tarballs.
There is nothing special - it's just a service. However, it is a service which is necessary because larger companies have to be sure that things are working properly.
Regards,
Hans
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