Re: postgresql-10.3 on unbuntu-17.10 - how??

Or you compile it?
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>> That was going to be my next step.  But I don't think a simple compile
>> from source would do because Ubuntu's package manager wouldn't be aware
>> that Postgresql was now available to satisfy other packages' 
>> dependencies.
>> So I would need to rebuild the Ubuntu source package.  I have done that
>> on Fedora several times where it has been, in my limited experience,
>> usually simple and problem free.  But I have read that building packages
>> on Ubuntu is much more arcane so I wasn't looking forward to it.
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> That is pretty much the case when you build from source, it will live 
> outside the OS packaging universe. I have built from source on Ubuntu 
> it is not any more difficult then other distros, just remember to 
> install build-essential. As far a dependencies basically the only 
> things that will have a Postgres dependency will be other Postgres 
> software e.g. psycopg2, etc. That means you will need to build them 
> from source also, though that is helped along by pg_config which will 
> find your source install and build the other software to match. It 
> also means uninstalling the Ubuntu Postgres packages so you don't 
> cross contaminate.
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And I would have expected to need to get a current library or two and 
thence a custom load path.  That said, it might not have taken as long 
as the packaged based efforts.  Nothing near as quick as realizing one 
can just load the sql though!
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