Re: Question: PostgreSQL on Amazon linux EC2

Thank you Flavio, this is helpful.

Have you faced any other challenges or any other problems after installing
Postgres?

Warm regards,
Ajay

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:45 PM Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel <
fhagur(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> Em seg., 6 de jul. de 2020 às 21:55, Ajay Patel <mailajaypatel(at)gmail(dot)com>
> escreveu:
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>> Hi Postgres team,
>>
>> I would like to know if PostgreSQL can be installed and used without any
>> issues on Amazon Linux EC2 machines.
>>
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> Yes you can, but not with the repositories at yum.postgresql.org. There's
> a dependency of a package that only exists on RHEL or CentOS and fail.
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>
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>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/supported-platforms.html
>>
>> I was going through the documentation and couldn't find very specific
>> details related to support.
>>
>> Any input will be much helpful.
>>
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> You'll be able to :
> - compile PostgreSQL
> - download and install rpm packages by hand
> - use a Amazon provided repo that installs more recent Postgres versions
> - actually not up-to-date.
>
> After struggling with the points above I decided just to use CentOS on
> EC2. It works perfectly and from CentOS 7 and up it is supported by AWS on
> all instance types and their exquisite hardware like network interfaces for
> EBS performance.
>
> Flavio Gurgel
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