Re: RHEL

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Adam Haberlach wrote:

> On that note, does anyone have suggestions for which version of the
> server I should run? I see that there are seperate binary RPMS for
> different Linux versions, but nothing for version 3 -- should I spend some
> time doing a full install, building, and contributing one, or is this not
> necessary?

Adam,

While I still have a couple of Red Hat 7.3 boxes, I'm migrating to
Slackware. I have found that I have much better results by building
PostgreSQL from source than installing from rpms. It doesn't take much time
and it has always worked for me, faster and with less hassle than trying to
upgrade via the packages.

That said, I also use checkinstall (rather than 'make install') and build
the package (your choice of Slackware, Red Hat or Debian) from the source
tarball. Consider trying that.

Rich

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