Re: redhat and postgresql management

David Bear <David.Bear@asu.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