Hallo Craig,
I found the repository and am considering switching to rpms. Compiling
from source actually was more straightforward for me initially, but in
the long run rpms probably are the better option. Thanks for the suggestion.
Jutta
On 06.10.2010 10:17, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 06/10/10 15:24, Jutta Buschbom wrote:
>> At our institute we decided to use PostGreSQL as our new server-based
>> database system. The installation of PostGreSQL 9.0.0 on SLES 10 x64
>> went fine.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Thus, my question: using “./configure –help” quite a lot of optional
>> packages are listed for language support (PL/xxx) and network
>> access/authentication
>
>
> If you're new to PostgreSQL and to database admin in general, I strongly
> suggest sticking to the RPM packages published for your distribution.
>