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From	Rambabu V
Subject	PG17 version getting installed by default with every package installation
Date	November 19 18:22:18
Msg-id	CADtiZxo4dcePO9MQkn_6ajKkksLNTA6jLK5WoxV3RLuewV=rag@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
List	pgsql-hackers

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Hi Team,

i have one more question :

with every version of package installation , PG 17 version is getting by default installed, is it a hard dependency or bug?

[root@db1 ~]# dnf install -y postgresql16-server postgresql16-contrib -y
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Dependencies resolved.
====================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
====================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
postgresql16-contrib x86_64 16.11-1PGDG.rhel10 pgdg16 730 k
postgresql16-server x86_64 16.11-1PGDG.rhel10 pgdg16 6.8 M
Installing dependencies:
libicu x86_64 74.2-5.el10_0 rhel-10-baseos-rhui-rpms 10 M
libxslt x86_64 1.1.39-8.el10_0 rhel-10-appstream-rhui-rpms 190 k
postgresql16 x86_64 16.11-1PGDG.rhel10 pgdg16 1.8 M
postgresql16-libs x86_64 16.11-1PGDG.rhel10 pgdg16 339 k
postgresql17 x86_64 17.7-1PGDG.rhel10 pgdg17 1.9 M
postgresql17-libs x86_64 17.7-1PGDG.rhel10 pgdg17 346 k
Installing weak dependencies:
postgresql17-server x86_64 17.7-1PGDG.rhel10 pgdg17 7.0 M

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install 9 Packages

Total download size: 30 M
Installed size: 120 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/9): postgresql17-libs-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64.rpm 11 MB/s | 346 kB 00:00
(2/9): postgresql17-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64.rpm 42 MB/s | 1.9 MB 00:00
(3/9): postgresql16-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64.rpm 56 MB/s | 1.8 MB 00:00
(4/9): postgresql16-contrib-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64.rpm 25 MB/s | 730 kB 00:00
(5/9): postgresql16-libs-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64.rpm 20 MB/s | 339 kB 00:00
(6/9): libxslt-1.1.39-8.el10_0.x86_64.rpm 6.6 MB/s | 190 kB 00:00
(7/9): libicu-74.2-5.el10_0.x86_64.rpm 104 MB/s | 10 MB 00:00
(8/9): postgresql17-server-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64.rpm 28 MB/s | 7.0 MB 00:00
(9/9): postgresql16-server-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64.rpm 33 MB/s | 6.8 MB 00:00
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 92 MB/s | 30 MB 00:00
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : postgresql17-libs-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 1/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql17-libs-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 1/9
Installing : libicu-74.2-5.el10_0.x86_64 2/9
Installing : postgresql16-libs-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 3/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql16-libs-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 3/9
Installing : postgresql16-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 4/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql16-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 4/9
Installing : postgresql17-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 5/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql17-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 5/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql17-server-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 6/9
Installing : postgresql17-server-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 6/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql17-server-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 6/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql16-server-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 7/9
Installing : postgresql16-server-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 7/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql16-server-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 7/9
Installing : libxslt-1.1.39-8.el10_0.x86_64 8/9
Installing : postgresql16-contrib-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 9/9
Running scriptlet: postgresql16-contrib-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 9/9
Installed products updated.

Installed:
libicu-74.2-5.el10_0.x86_64 libxslt-1.1.39-8.el10_0.x86_64 postgresql16-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 postgresql16-contrib-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql16-libs-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 postgresql16-server-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 postgresql17-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64 postgresql17-libs-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql17-server-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64

Complete!
[root@db1 ~]# rpm -qa|grep postgres
postgresql17-libs-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql16-libs-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql16-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql17-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql17-server-17.7-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql16-server-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64
postgresql16-contrib-16.11-1PGDG.rhel10.x86_64

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