CentOS 6 supplies 8.4.20 but I want to use hot standby - the issue is that the PGDG packages don't install into the "usual place" they are installed in version specific directories, including the data, binaries, libraries etc. How do people deal with this when for years they have been using postgres and "stuff" is in standard directories not version specific directories?
It's actually nicer that it uses a version specific directory, IMO, since you can have two versions installed simultaneously for upgrade purposes.
I just create symlinks data/ and backups/ in /var/lib/pgsql to point to the dirs of the same names under the 9.3/ directory.
How did you deal with binaries and libraries, as well as third party apps like perl modules or php/apache modules?
