Re: redhat and postgresql management

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Bear <David(dot)Bear(at)asu(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: redhat and postgresql management
Date: 2010-06-18 16:48:57
Message-ID: 14606.1276879737@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Bear <David(dot)Bear(at)asu(dot)edu> writes:
> I have RHEL 5.4 (64bit) that has a postgresql-lib 8.1 installed to satisfy
> dependancy for a dozen other packages including apache, php and other apache
> modules, and subversion.

> I want to install postresql 8.3 but yum informs me of the version conflict
> of the library. May i safely just over write the postgresql-lib with the 8.3
> lib ??

No. They're not the same library major version.

As of RHEL5.5 there is a postgresql84 package, and postgresql84-libs can
be installed without a conflict with the 8.1 postgresql-libs. You might
consider going for that instead of 8.3.

regards, tom lane

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