Re: redhat and postgresql management

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

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PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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