Re: postgres source code installation vs rpm based installation

[Pavan Kumar <pavan.dba27@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ron,

>>>>>>>Are you a Windows DBA with no Linux or Postgres experience?  (I ask that so
>>>>>>>that we know "where you are" in regards to installing software on Linux.)

I am  not Windows DBA.   I have very good experience on Linux and working on postgres.

I installed postgres in both way's rpm based and source code installation.  

I prefer source code for below reason

       I will have control on postgres software location

       few parameter I can modify with source code installation (like wal-segsize). 

       I can install same version  postgres on multiple times as per our need.

I want to hear experts thoughts on this .

kindly advise 

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:09 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/4/19 3:00 PM, Pavan Kumar wrote:
> Hello Experts,
>
> I have couple of questions on postgres installation.
>
> 1. which way of installation is better ? source code or rpm based ?
> 2. for instance , If we need to install same version postgres on multiple
> times on same server. how do we need to handle this with rpm ?
> 3. If I go with source code installation, in case we need to upgrade OS(6
> to 7) , do we need to recompile existing postgres binaries ?

Are you a Windows DBA with no Linux or Postgres experience?  (I ask that so
that we know "where you are" in regards to installing software on Linux.)

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