Re: BUG #16225: EL8 - PGDG postgresql* packages conflict with appstream postgresql packages

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:53 PM Andrew Roffey <andrew(at)aroffey(dot)id(dot)au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After further investigation, it looks to be related to the new DNF
> module feature in EL8.
>
> Workaround is to disable the postgresql module:
>
> dnf module disable postgresql
>
> After which, postgresql (ol8_appstream), postgresql10 (pgdg10) and
> postgresql11 (pgdg11) are installable.
>
> Still need to look further into how these modules work and if any
> packaging changes could be done as a better fix for PGDG.

Hello!

Note that this disabling step has been documented on the download page
(https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/) for some time, but
was not documented alongside the initial releases where it was needed.
But it was added in the middle of December last year.

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