Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85CCD6323C5 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:40:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56997-05 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:40:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AC5632392 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:40:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.0.105] (pool-96-244-14-10.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net [96.244.14.10]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MDn70-1OSO3W10U2-00HXqF; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:40:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4C1BAF82.7000806@2ndquadrant.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:40:18 -0400 From: Greg Smith User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Bear CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: redhat and postgresql management References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/mlJiyqi6vvqse8eDc67j7Guo9fvnfR0fJiqp Nylr0GYZcVT5l+vPBhfo7YNGyTPokH3Mqers7CTYRF1uSe5932 5h20iDPRUbR8PsYpnT9skdyMcke6GOi X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.001 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_40=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201006/127 X-Sequence-Number: 34905 David Bear wrote: > 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. I wrote a detailed guide to exactly how to step around this problem by installing the compat-postgresql-libs package provided by the PostgreSQL 8.3 package set you may find useful: http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support greg@2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us