Re: PostgreSQL Packages - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-yum

From rajdeep limbu
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Packages
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Msg-id CAG5O28c+kjZkjue9qGVYgr1OvE=OzUTBAiE+xhSKD_s+tzfLcA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Packages  (Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>)
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Hi Christoph,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

We are building an in-house catalog for different software applications. So, we had few confusions regarding these PostgreSQL packages and thus wrote an email to you. 

It would be very kind if you can help me clear a few more doubts I have :

1)  Are postgresql-runtime packages separately installable ?? what are these packages? I could not find these packages after I am done with the PostgreSQL installation.

2) There are several other PostgreSQL packages we have discovered such as PostgreSQL-contrib, PostgreSQL-plpython, postgresql-runtime ( to name a few).  Can you provide me a list of packages which are not possible to installed separately and gets installed along with the PostgreSQL server?

3) On CentOS, the postgresql package has the clients, and the server is
in the postgresql-server package. (Is this applicable to the entire Red Hat family?)

On Debian, the postgresql package has the server, and the clients are
in the postgresql-client package. ( (Is this applicable to Ubuntu also?)

Thanks & Regards,
Rajdeep


On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 5:39 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
Re: rajdeep limbu 2019-03-29 <CAG5O28cyU64zRhooQLovVzci0QNnsZfjQh=z_LV1eKFOkRsVPQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Apart from this, I had a query regarding the naming convention followed by
> PostgreSQL for their *client* and *server *packages. For all the server
> installations, they call it PostgreSQL Server. However, for the client
> related installations,

"client" is the "psql" command line client, and other binaries like
pg_dump.

> they nowhere mention that it is a PostgreSQL client rather they say it as
> PostgreSQL ( at least for CentOS). what about Ubuntu, Debian, and other
> installations? Can you throw some light on this ??

On CentOS, the postgresql package has the clients, and the server is
in the postgresql-server package.

On Debian, the postgresql package has the server, and the clients are
in the postgresql-client package.

I'm not sure I got your questions correctly. What's the reason you are
asking?

Christoph

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