November 14, 2024: PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 Released!

Linux downloads (Red Hat family)

The Red Hat family of distributions includes:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Rocky Linux
  • AlmaLinux
  • CentOS (7 and 6 only)
  • Fedora
  • Oracle Linux

and others.

PostgreSQL is available on these platforms by default. However, each version of the platform normally "snapshots" a specific version of PostgreSQL that is then supported throughout the lifetime of this platform. Since this can often mean a different version than preferred, the PostgreSQL project provides a repository of packages of all supported versions for the most common distributions.

PostgreSQL Yum Repository

The PostgreSQL Yum Repository will integrate with your normal systems and patch management, and provide automatic updates for all supported versions of PostgreSQL throughout the support lifetime of PostgreSQL.

The PostgreSQL Yum Repository currently supports:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Rocky Linux
  • AlmaLinux
  • CentOS (7 and 6 only)
  • Oracle Linux
  • Fedora*

*Note: due to the shorter support cycle on Fedora, all supported versions of PostgreSQL are not available on this platform. We do not recommend using Fedora for server deployments.

To use the PostgreSQL Yum Repository, follow these steps:

  1. Select version:
  2. Select platform:
  3. Select architecture:
  4. Copy, paste and run the relevant parts of the setup script: 
    
        
    
    
  
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Included in Distribution



These distributions all include PostgreSQL by default. To install
PostgreSQL from these repositories, use the yum command on RHEL 6 and 7:





yum install postgresql-server





or dnf command on RHEL 8 and Fedora:





dnf install postgresql-server





Which version of PostgreSQL you get will depend on the version of
the distribution:




  
    

      Distribution
      Version
    

  
  
    

     RHEL / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux 9
     15, 13
    

    

     RHEL / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux / OL 8
     15, 13, 12, 10 and 9.6 via modules
    

    

     RHEL / CentOS / SL / OL 7
     9.2 (also supplies package rh-postgresql10, rh-postgresql96, rh-postgresql95 and rh-postgresql94 via SCL)
    

    

     RHEL / CentOS / SL / OL 6
     8.4 (also supplies package rh-postgresql96, via SCL)
    

    

     Fedora 40
     16
    

    

     Fedora 39
     15
    

  




Other Red Hat family distributions may ship a different version of
PostgreSQL by default, check with your distribution vendor to be sure.





The repository contains many different packages including third party
addons. The most common and important packages are (substitute the
version number as required):




  
    

     postgresql-client
     libraries and client binaries
    

    

     postgresql-server
     core database server
    

    

     postgresql-contrib
     additional supplied modules
    

    

     postgresql-devel
     libraries and headers for C language development
    

  




Post-installation



Due to policies for Red Hat family distributions, the PostgreSQL installation
will not be enabled for automatic start or have the database initialized
automatically. To make your database installation complete, you need to
perform the following steps, based on your distribution:

For RHEL / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux / CentOS / SL / OL 7, 8, 9 or Fedora 39 and later derived distributions:


  postgresql-setup --initdb
  systemctl enable postgresql.service
  systemctl start postgresql.service



For RHEL / CentOS / SL / OL 6


  service postgresql initdb
  chkconfig postgresql on






Direct RPM download



If you cannot, or do not want to, use the yum based installation method,
all the RPMs that are in the yum repository are available for
direct download
and manual installation as well.