I use emacs mostly for editing because I can never remember how to navigate with vim. This is optional since theseĭays the PostgreSQL package names now include the version number as part of the name so less likely for you to screw up: If you see postgresql from other repositories besides PGDG, then you may want to exclude them to minimize the risk of installing the wrong thing. You should see a bunch of entries and the ones we want are marked with pgdg90. In our case we are running CentOS release 5.5. Mine happens to return: i686 i386 GNU/Linux so I know its a 32-bit. Note the PGDG repository only works with CentOS and Redhat 4 and above, or Fedora. The list of latest PostgreSQL versions and repos for Fedora 7-14, Red Hat 4-6, and CentOS 4-6 are located at.

Installing PostgreSQL 9.0 from Yum repository

PostgreSQL 9.1 while reminiscing about the soon to be old-hat features of PostgreSQL 9.0.

We'll also demonstrate how to have two instances of PostgreSQL running so you can experiment with the new features of Upgrading from 8.4 to 9.0 on Fedora / Red Hat / CentOS using RPMs.įor the rest of this article, we'll go over configuring your yum to use the PostgreSQL PGDG Yum repository managed by Devrim Gunduz, which has the latest and greatest ofĩ.0 as well as the 9.1 latest development release. If you are upgrading from a PostgreSQL 8.4 to PostgreSQL 9.0, please refer to Devrim's article: Upgrading from PostgreSQL 8.* to PostgreSQL 9.0 This I'm testing on a GoGrid Cloud server so I can do parallel benchmarks between my windows GoGridĪnd Linux GoGrid server. In this exercise, we'll go thru installing PostgreSQL 9.0 on a Cent OS 5.5 32-bit box.

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