Replacing Fedora Postgresql with non-Fedora version?

Stuart McGraw smcg4191 at frii.com
Tue Feb 24 04:24:28 UTC 2015


On 02/22/2015 12:40 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 09:35:54 -0700,
>   Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have Postgresql-9.3 installed from the Fedora 21 yum repo
>> in  order to satisfy any packages that need postgresql.  But
>> I need  to run Postgresql-9.4 so I disabled the yum postgresql
>> startup via systemd and installed the EDB version of 9.4
>> into  /opt/postgresql [*].
>
> What I would is rebuild 9.4 using the source rpm from f22 in f21, then
> update using the generated rpms.

I hadn't thought of that, thanks!  I did that and it worked
well.  I'd still like to get the EDB postgresql to work because
it is more independent of Fedora but now that I have something
working, I can work on the problem with the EDB version more
leisurely.  Thanks much for the suggestion.


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