Re: RPM for CentOS - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: RPM for CentOS
Date
Msg-id 20090403105545.GD17375@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to RPM for CentOS  ("Just E. Mail" <justemail@imwell-usa.com>)
Responses Re: RPM for CentOS  (John Gardner <john.gardner@tagish.co.uk>)
List pgsql-novice
In response to Just E. Mail :
> Hello:
>
> My first posting!
>
> I am trying to install PostgreSQL on a CentOS 5.2 server. PostgreSQL 8.0
> comes packaged with CentOS. The latest version of PostgreSQL is 8.3.7.
> Since I am a novice, my preference is to install PostgreSQL which comes
> packaged with CentOS 5.2, although it is the older version of PostgreSQL.

See http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/

>
> My question is, "Is there a major difference between PostgreSQL version
> 8.0 & 8.3?".  If I install PostgreSQL 8.0,am I going to be missing
> something?

Sure, a lot. There are many, many improvements between 8.0 and 8.3.


Andreas
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