postgresql 8.4 on fedora 19

[hicham]

Hello Every one

I'm need to test an database application which runs with postgresql 8.4
is there a way to install it on fedora 19 ?

or should i downgrade ? : (

thanks

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 11:39 +0000, hicham wrote:
>  Hello Every one
>  
>  I'm need to test an database application which runs with postgresql 8.4
>  is there a way to install it on fedora 19 ?
>  
>  or should i downgrade ? : (
>  
>  thanks 
Since it's for testing, consider using a virtual machine with the
appropriate version of Fedora.

poc

[James Hogarth]

On 24 March 2014 01:35, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 11:39 +0000, hicham wrote:
>  > Hello Every one
>  >
>  > I'm need to test an database application which runs with postgresql 8.4
>  > is there a way to install it on fedora 19 ?
>  >
>  > or should i downgrade ? : (
>  >
>  > thanks
>
>  Since it's for testing, consider using a virtual machine with the
>  appropriate version of Fedora.
>  
Or use a more appropriate distro such as CentOS6 which has postgres84 in
it's base repos.

Is there a specific reason you want to use Fedora?

If it's just what you have installed on your workstation you should
probably use a CentOS 6 VM.

[CS DBA]

On 03/23/2014 07:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 11:39 +0000, hicham wrote:
> > Hello Every one
> >
> > I'm need to test an database application which runs with postgresql 8.4
> > is there a way to install it on fedora 19 ?
> >
> > or should i downgrade ? : (
> >
> > thanks
>  Since it's for testing, consider using a virtual machine with the
>  appropriate version of Fedora.
>
>  poc
>  
Install via source:

http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.4.21/