Re: CentOS 6 and Postgresql 9.3.4 from PGDG

On 04/14/2014 09:02 AM, Moshe Jacobson wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Steve Clark <sclark(at)netwolves(dot)com <mailto:sclark(at)netwolves(dot)com>> wrote:
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> CentOS 6 supplies 8.4.20 but I want to use hot standby - the issue is that the PGDG
> packages don't install into the "usual place" they are installed in version specific directories,
> including the data, binaries, libraries etc. How do people deal with this when for years they
> have been using postgres and "stuff" is in standard directories not version specific directories?
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> It's actually nicer that it uses a version specific directory, IMO, since you can have two versions installed simultaneously for upgrade purposes.
> I just create symlinks data/ and backups/ in /var/lib/pgsql to point to the dirs of the same names under the 9.3/ directory.
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How did you deal with binaries and libraries, as well as third party apps like perl modules or php/apache modules?

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