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From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Best way to install postgres? RPM/Source Code Build
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Msg-id 1240967190.25579.73.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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> Ops team want to install postgres as (usr/local/bin) using RPM, and
> want to keep the data directory under (/var/lib/data/pgsql) and they
> say that we cannot have two versions at the same time using RPM.
> They say that red hat standard is to install all binaries of the
> database under /usr/local/bin and by using RPM only.

They are wrong. Redhat standard is /usr/bin for
binaries /var/lib/pgsql/data for the data directory.

Use www.pgsqlrpms.org and make your life easy.

Joshua D. Drake

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