New PostgreSQL RPM sets are available for Fedora / RHEL / CentOS

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PostgreSQL New RPM Sets
2010-05-17

Versions: 8.4.4 8.3.11 8.2.17, 8.1.21, 8.0.25, 7.4.29
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Release Info:

The PostgreSQL RPM Building Project has released RPMs for 8.4.4 8.3.11
8.2.17, 8.1.21, 8.0.25, 7.4.29, and they are available in PostgreSQL RPM
Repository:

http://yum.pgrpms.org

We currently have RPMs for:

- Fedora 7
- Fedora 7-x86_64
- Fedora 8
- Fedora 8-x86_64
- Fedora 12
- Fedora 12-x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 4 - i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 4 - x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4 - i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4-x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64
- CentOS 5 - i386
- CentOS 5 - x86_64

More will come later.

Support for PostgreSQL 7.4 and 8.0 will be abandoned as of July, 2010,
after they are EOLed.

For complete list of changes in RPM sets, please refer to the changelogs
in the RPMs. Use
rpm -q -changelog package_name
for querying the changelog.

Point releases generally do not require a dump/reload from the previous
point, but please see the Release Notes to confirm procedures for
upgrading, especially if your current version is older than the last
point release.

The SRPMs are also provided:

http://yum.pgrpms.org/srpms/

We also have howto documents about RPM installation of PostgreSQL:

http://yum.pgrpms.org/howtoyum.php

Please follow the instructions before installing/upgrading.

If you experience problems with the RPMs or if you have feature
requests, please join

http://lists.pgrpms.org/mailman/listinfo/pgrpms-general

The project page is:

http://yum.pgrpms.org

Please do not use these resources for issue running or using PostgreSQL
once it is installed.

Manual download (without using yum) is also possible:

http://yum.pgrpms.org/8.4
http://yum.pgrpms.org/8.3
http://yum.pgrpms.org/8.2
http://yum.pgrpms.org/8.1
http://yum.pgrpms.org/8.0
http://yum.pgrpms.org/7.4

Regards,

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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
PostgreSQL RPM Repository: http://yum.pgrpms.org
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