[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4 & feedbacks about postgreSQL support

[Wojtak, Greg]

My preliminary testing shows that the PostgreSQL backend does everything out prod set up does with an Oracle back end, only faster (I can only assume that this is because PostgreSQL is not bound to 1 GB of memory like XE).  This includes:

registering hosts
managing software channels
managing configuration channels
installing and updating packages on systems with yum
scheduling actions
jabberd + osad WORKED right out of the gate

I've not tried SSM or kickstart (I won't be testing kickstart since we don't do that today).

I can't say for sure whether performance or stability will degrade over time or not, as I am using a limited amount of clients, channels, and packages for testing.

Greg

From: "DEMARQUAY, Mathieu" <mathieu.demarquay at capgemini.com<mailto:mathieu.demarquay at capgemini.com>>
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:01:50 -0400
To: "'spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:'spacewalk-list at redhat.com>'" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4 & feedbacks about postgreSQL support

Hi,

I would be happy to have some feedbacks from people who tried Spacewalk 1.4 with postgreSQL backend.

More precisely, which main functionalities still does not work ? Kickstart ? SSM operations ? What about the whole osa-dispatcher – jabber – osad communication ?

I try to know if I can get rid of oracle and still have a usable (even limited) “spacewalk” and the wiki is a bit succinct about that :).

Mathieu






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