Re: Best way to install postgres? RPM/Source Code Build

Thank you guys for the answers.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

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> >
> > Ops team want to install postgres as (usr/local/bin) using RPM, and
> > want to keep the data directory under (/var/lib/data/pgsql) and they
> > say that we cannot have two versions at the same time using RPM.
> > They say that red hat standard is to install all binaries of the
> > database under /usr/local/bin and by using RPM only.
>
> They are wrong. Redhat standard is /usr/bin for
> binaries /var/lib/pgsql/data for the data directory.
>
> Use www.pgsqlrpms.org and make your life easy.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> Joshua D. Drake
> >
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