Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> writes:
> The reason we switched that machine to Debian was due to the
> postgresql-devel package being missing for Red Hat. We need that package
> in order to install some of our more interesting extensions. A quick look
> at http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/fedora/fedora-9-x86_64/ indicates that
> this package is still missing.
You switched OSes instead of complaining to the repository maintainer
that he'd forgotten a subpackage? You must have a lot of time on your
hands.
regards, tom lane