[CentOS] PostgeSQL 8.0.4 on CentOS4.2

Tue Oct 25 20:31:38 UTC 2005
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) <matt.baluyos.lists at gmail.com>

On 10/26/05, James B. Byrne <ByrneJB at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> In case anyone besides me is interested, installing these packages
> on CentOS4.2 seems to work.  You can determine the correct mirror
> to use from:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.4/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-
> es-4/
>
> The rpm command that I used was:
>
> rpm --upgrade --nodeps --hash -v <package url>
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Thanks Jim. Very useful guide - used it to upgrade our server to 8.0.4
(7.x.x would've been fine generally but I wanted the new ALTER COLUMN
... ALTER TABLE ... TYPE command). Seems --nodeps was the missing flag
needed to install the packages without complaining about dependencies.


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