Re: Postgresql 7.2 available on Enterprise ES ??

Daniel

Thank you for reply below. Looks like ES 2.1 was a mistake. Will redo using ES 3.0.

Frank

On 28 Apr 2004 at 17:35, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:50:15PM +0100, Prospero Associates Limited wrote:
> > Had Postgresql 7.2 running well on Redhat 8.0. Including JDBC driver from postgres 
> > site. Now trialling upgrade to Redhat Enterprise ES. See that version of PGSQL there is 
> > only 7.1 e.g. postgresql-7.1.3-5.rhel2.1AS
> > 
> > Dont really want to downgrade Postgres. 7.2 is a good release with significant 
> > enhancements over 7.1. Only way I can see to get 7.2 is from old 8.0 channel on RHN 
> > (its not available on ES channel) of from old rpms we still have.
> > 
> > If we were to apply these RPMs, we would first remove completely 7.1 on ES.
> 
> My recommended approach would be to get the PostgreSQL Red Hat Edition version 3
> from our FTP site. This is based on the community PostgreSQL 7.2 & is compiled
> for and compatability tested with RHEL 2.1:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhdb/2.1/en/iso/i386
> 
> NB, this version of PostgreSQL is only relevant for CCM version 5.2. If you
> have CCM version 6.0 or 6.1 (ie the nightly builds), then you need to get
> the community PostgreSQL 7.3, or PostgreSQL Red Hat edition version 3:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhdb/3.0/en/iso/i386
> 
> > Any reasons why this might be a bad idea ?.
> > Is the version of Postgresql for ES not the same as delivered by postgresql.org (e.g. 
> > why does the package name have '.rhel2.1AS' on the end) ?
> > If we install 7.2, will RHN pick it up under the ES channel (presumably not) ?.
> 
> Nope.
> 
> > In general terms, we were really quite surprised that ES was behind in almost *every* 
> > package compared to 8.0.. Why is this ?.
> 
> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux products have a much longer lifecycle
> than the (now discontinued) Red Hat Linux products, and Fedora. RHEL 2.1
> was based on the 7.2 release of Red Hat Linux which is a couple of 
> releases prior to 8.0, hence the packages will obviously be older. If you need 
> some of the more up2date software then the newer RHEL 3 release (which was
> based on Fedora Core 1) is probably a better choice. 
> 
> Dan.
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