Re: Installing Postgres - newbie

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)deg(dot)cc>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Installing Postgres - newbie
Date: 2004-11-04 20:40:12
Message-ID: 29503.1099600812@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)deg(dot)cc> writes:
> How do i know which one is for installing the Postgres server and
> what are the other packages for ?

You could read the package descriptions ...

> do i have to install all these packages too ?

Might as well. The ones that could reasonably be considered optional
aren't really big enough to be worth leaving out, with the possible
exception of -test and even that's only a megabyte.

regards, tom lane

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