Re: Differences in installing Postgres 8.3.8

Le mardi 17 novembre 2009 à 01:59:31, Kasia Tuszynska a écrit :
> [...]
> Question1:
> Is it expected behavior that different installers give a different outcome?
>

Yes.

> Question2 ( much more important than Q1):
> Is it possible to get an rpm build for linux that will behave like the msi
> installer on windows?

You'll have to build your own, and I'm not sure this is such a great idea. The
RPM packages are done in a way that they reuse other packages (libxml for
example), and the one click installer ships all it needs. They have two
strictly different behaviors because they don't intend to achieve the same
goals.

> I am looking for a consistent way that we could put
> down Postgres on different platforms and know that the installation will
> be the same. The msi installer installs the xml type by default and makes
> uuid-ossp available, it would be great if the rpms could do the same or
> put down both options by default.
>

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