How do you keep the 4 databases in sync with each other?
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From: Eric Lee Green [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 8:35 PM
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Subject: [ADMIN] 6.4.2 RPM's for Red Hat 5.2 Linux
Since I am using PostGreSQL for OIMS (Order/Inventory/Manufacturing
System) and am running it on at least four different Red Hat 5.2
systems
(my laptop, my desktop at home, my desktop at the office, our
internal
server at the office), I made up RPM's of 6.4.2. My RPM's work,
unlike the
ones at Red Hat. Actually, my .srpm file is the one at Red Hat's
contrib
site, but for some reason they put some other dufus's .rpm file in
the
i386 directory.
Unfortunately I don't have an FTP site to put them on. Getting Red
Hat to
fix their goofup is about as likely as Microsoft releasing a
bug-free
Windows NT 5.0 (whoops, Windows 2000!). What I'm wondering, is if
this is
something that should perhaps be in the precompiled binaries
directory at
ftp.postgresql.org <ftp://ftp.postgresql.org> <ftp://ftp.postgresql.org
<ftp://ftp.postgresql.org> > ?
This would also give me some place to refer people from the OIMS web
site
when they need PostGreSQL for their Red Hat 5.2.
I can verify that these RPM's work, and work on multiple Red Hat 5.2
machines. Unlike the ones at Red Hat (sigh). What I can't promise is
whether I'll be doing this for future releases, though looking at
the
feature list for 6.5, it certainly looks promising enough for me to
upgrade (once it gets to 6.5.2 :-). A real 'numeric' type, in
particular,
is the one thing that I've been needing for quite some time.
BTW, congrats to the PostGreSQL developers. I've been following the
development of this beast since it was PostGres95, when it was nigh
unusable. 6.4.2 isn't going to put Oracle out of business, but it
is
certainly featuresome and reliable enough to run the average
small-to-mid
size business off of.
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