Re: redhat and postgresql management

Thank you all. This group is amazingly helpful. The combinations of emails
and the document linked below did the trick.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> David Bear wrote:
>
>> 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. I wrote a detailed guide to exactly how to step around this problem by
> installing the compat-postgresql-libs package provided by the PostgreSQL 8.3
> package set you may find useful:
> http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm<http://www.westnet.com/%7Egsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm>
>
> --
> Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD
> PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
> greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.us
>
>

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