PostgreSQL 8.2.0 : New RPM Sets for Fedora Core / Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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PostgreSQL New RPM Sets
2006-12-10

Version: 8.2.0

Set label: 8.2.0-2PGDG
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Release Info:

PostgreSQL RPM Building Project has released RPMs for PostgreSQL 8.2.0
and they are available in main FTP site and its mirrors.

We currently have RPMs for:

- Fedora Core 2-x86_64
- Fedora Core 4
- Fedora Core 5
- Fedora Core 6
- Fedora Core 6-x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 4-x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4-x86_64

More may (will) come later. I want to thank every package builder for
this great number of supported platforms. Support for Red Hat 9, RHEL
2.1 and Fedora Core 1 and 3 was abandoned . Fedora Core 2 support will
be abandoned in future releases. Please let us know if you can assist
us in building RPMS of missing Red Hat / Fedora Core platforms.

This release set contains a new package: compat-postgresql-libs.
Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 ship with libpq.so.4. Any apps that are built against
libpq need this, like php-pgsql, However, since PostgreSQL 8.2 ships with
libpq.so.5, users will need old libs in order not to break apps.

For example, if you are running PHP+PostgreSQL 8.1.X on FC6 and if you want to
upgrade to PostgreSQL 8.2, you will need this package before upgrading to 8.2.

We are shipping libpq.so.4 with this new set. Please install compat-postgresql-libs
before installing other packages.

For complete list of changes in RPM sets, please refer to the changelogs
in the RPMs. Use
rpm -q -changelog package_name
for querying the changelog.

Since this release is a major release, it requires a dump/reload from the
previous release. Please see the Release Notes to confirm procedures for
upgrading.

We excluded PDF file for 8.2.0, but we will again include the PDF documentation
into the -docs RPMs for 8.2.1.

The SRPMs are also provided. Please note that we have one SRPM for all
platforms.

We also have a howto document about RPM installation of PostgreSQL:

http://pgfoundry.org/docman/?group_id=1000048

Please follow the instructions before installing/upgrading.

Almost each RPM has been signed by the builder, and each directory
contains CURRENT_MAINTAINER file which includes the name/email of the
package builder and link to their PGP key.

If you experience problems with the RPMs or if you have feature
requests, please join

pgsqlrpms-general ( at ) pgfoundry ( dot ) org

More info about the list is found at:

http://lists.pgfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/pgsqlrpms-general

The project page is:

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgsqlrpms

Please do not use these resources for issue running or using PostgreSQL
once it is installed.
Please download these files from:

http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.2.0/linux/

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