Re: CentOS initd Script

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Your best bet for running > 1 versions and / or > 1 clusters of the
> same version, is to run debian or any debian based distro. You create
> a new cluster like so:

Just a quick note that back when Centos / RHEL was my main db server
OS, I just built postgresql and slony from source so I could always
have the exact versions of each that I needed and I just used a
simplified version of the RHEL startup script to start each cluster.
It's not that hard and updating or installing a new version is as easy
as copying a configure.local file, making a few minor edits to it, and
runnning ./configure.local ; make ; make install ; mkdir /some/dir/ ;
initdb -yada ; cp /etc/init.d/pgstartupscript
/etc/init.d/pgstartupscript2 ; vi /etc/init.d/pgstartupscript2

OK not as simple as debian makes it but honestly not all that hard either.