Looks like I'll be compiling. BTW, I'm not planning on running a server on
it but have a couple pieces of expensive specialized hardware that are only
certified on RHEL 5 i386 systems. They do need to talk to the server and I
don't want to delay the migration of the rest of the infrastructure just
because those aren't replaced, yet.

Cheers,
Steve


On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 3:59 AM, Devrim Gündüz <dev...@gunduz.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 12:15 -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> > The question remains - does anyone know where I might find packages so I
> > don't have to compile them myself?
>
> (I'm the maintainer of the repository)
>
> There are no packages for CentOS 5 / PG 9.6, and it was my decision to drop
> support -- as I thought that using CentOS 5 with a new set of PG releases
> would
> not be the best idea.
>
> I still think so.
>
> However, you can still rebuild 9.6 RPMs on your CentOS 5 box, by using this
> SRPM:
>
> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/srpms/9.6/
> redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/postgresql96-9.6.2-2PGDG.rhel6.src.rpm
>
> I did not test it though, but it should work or less work...
>
> You can also contact a PostgreSQL support company, and ask them to provide
> the
> RPMs, too.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Devrim Gündüz
> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
> Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR
>

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