Обсуждение: RPM for CentOS
Hello: My first posting! I am trying to install PostgreSQL on a CentOS 5.2 server. PostgreSQL 8.0 comes packaged with CentOS. The latest version of PostgreSQL is 8.3.7. Since I am a novice, my preference is to install PostgreSQL which comes packaged with CentOS 5.2, although it is the older version of PostgreSQL. My question is, "Is there a major difference between PostgreSQL version 8.0 & 8.3?". If I install PostgreSQL 8.0,am I going to be missing something? Sam
In response to Just E. Mail : > Hello: > > My first posting! > > I am trying to install PostgreSQL on a CentOS 5.2 server. PostgreSQL 8.0 > comes packaged with CentOS. The latest version of PostgreSQL is 8.3.7. > Since I am a novice, my preference is to install PostgreSQL which comes > packaged with CentOS 5.2, although it is the older version of PostgreSQL. See http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/ > > My question is, "Is there a major difference between PostgreSQL version > 8.0 & 8.3?". If I install PostgreSQL 8.0,am I going to be missing > something? Sure, a lot. There are many, many improvements between 8.0 and 8.3. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net
A. Kretschmer wrote: >> >> I am trying to install PostgreSQL on a CentOS 5.2 server. PostgreSQL 8.0 >> comes packaged with CentOS. The latest version of PostgreSQL is 8.3.7. >> Since I am a novice, my preference is to install PostgreSQL which comes >> packaged with CentOS 5.2, although it is the older version of PostgreSQL. > You can also try: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/
"Just E. Mail" <justemail@imwell-usa.com> writes: > I am trying to install PostgreSQL on a CentOS 5.2 server. PostgreSQL 8.0 > comes packaged with CentOS. The latest version of PostgreSQL is 8.3.7. > Since I am a novice, my preference is to install PostgreSQL which comes > packaged with CentOS 5.2, although it is the older version of PostgreSQL. > My question is, "Is there a major difference between PostgreSQL version > 8.0 & 8.3?". If I install PostgreSQL 8.0,am I going to be missing > something? Not only is 8.3 a lot better, but I'm finding myself pretty suspicious of the copy of CentOS you've got, too. RHEL-5 shipped with Postgres 8.1, and there is no reason to be installing anything older in a Red Hat derived distro. (I'd recommend 8.3 over 8.1, too, just to be clear.) regards, tom lane