On 11/3/2016 7:58 AM, Jason Welsh wrote:
ok, so I removed the default postgresql install and installed it from the software collections..
following the instructions at
https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-postgresql95/
the best way to install postgresqol, imho, is from the yum.postgresql.com respoitory run by the postgresql development group. you get your choice of any of the active versions (9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9,5, and now 9.6), it has almost all of the add-ons available at your fingertips via yum, and its well integrated and well supported. It does require a few packages from the EPEL repository for some of the addon packages.
quicky howto on installing 9.5.latest for centos 6 64bit...
# First, (optional) create and mount a dedicated xfs file system at /var/lib/pgsql before beginning this, so all my databases are on it sudo yum -y install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.5/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-... sudo yum -y install postgresql95-{server,contrib,devel} # install server and components sudo service postrgresql-9.5 initdb # initialize database cluster sudo service postgresql-9.5 start # start database server sudo chkconfig postgresql-9.5 on # set so db server always runs at boot sudo -u postgres psql -c "create user $USER superuser; create database $USER owner $USER"
that last step gives your regular user a sql account with full database admin privs and creates a scratchpad database for them to log on with while doing admin stuff.
now,
sudo yum -y install ip4r95 psql -c "create extension ip4r" somedatabase
to install ip4r and enable it in somedatabase...