On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
For comparison, with Red Hat, you will need to upgrade to a whole new distribution whenever you want updated software, which is a much bigger undertaking.
This is somewhat true for larger packages, but it's not the case for PostgreSQL. You certainly can grab newer RPMs from https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgcore and install them. Those packages are at least as current as their Debian counterparts, and in some cases the RPMs have been months ahead (I recall there being quite a lag before Debian supported PG 8.3 for example).
It can be a bit tricky to replace the RHEL version of PostgreSQL with those, I wrote a walkthrough that covers the non-obvious parts at http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm
The result won't be officially supported by RedHat, but in practice that's no worse than what you get from the Debian versions.
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