Re: PostgreSQL Packages

Hi Christoph,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

We are building an in-house catalog for different software applications.
So, we had few confusions regarding these PostgreSQL packages and thus
wrote an email to you.

It would be very kind if you can help me clear a few more doubts I have :

1) Are *postgresql-runtime* packages separately installable ?? what are
these packages? I could not find these packages after I am done with the
PostgreSQL installation.

2) There are several other PostgreSQL packages we have discovered such as
*PostgreSQL-contrib*, *PostgreSQL-plpython*, *postgresql-runtime* ( to name
a few). Can you provide me a list of packages which are not possible to
installed separately and gets installed along with the PostgreSQL server?

3) On CentOS, the postgresql package has the clients, and the server is
in the postgresql-server package. (*Is this applicable to the entire Red
Hat family?*)

On Debian, the postgresql package has the server, and the clients are
in the postgresql-client package. ( (*Is this applicable to Ubuntu also?*)

Thanks & Regards,
Rajdeep

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 5:39 PM Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:

> Re: rajdeep limbu 2019-03-29 <CAG5O28cyU64zRhooQLovVzci0QNnsZfjQh=
> z_LV1eKFOkRsVPQ(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> > Apart from this, I had a query regarding the naming convention followed
> by
> > PostgreSQL for their *client* and *server *packages. For all the server
> > installations, they call it PostgreSQL Server. However, for the client
> > related installations,
>
> "client" is the "psql" command line client, and other binaries like
> pg_dump.
>
> > they nowhere mention that it is a PostgreSQL client rather they say it as
> > PostgreSQL ( at least for CentOS). what about Ubuntu, Debian, and other
> > installations? Can you throw some light on this ??
>
> On CentOS, the postgresql package has the clients, and the server is
> in the postgresql-server package.
>
> On Debian, the postgresql package has the server, and the clients are
> in the postgresql-client package.
>
> I'm not sure I got your questions correctly. What's the reason you are
> asking?
>
> Christoph
>