I have built and am uploading RPMS for 7.3. Mirror propagation being what it is, it may take a day or two for these packages to make the rounds.
You may find them at: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.3/RPMS Source RPM in SRPMS, Red Hat 8 RPMS in redhat-8.0. I will be building Red Hat 7.3 RPMs soon. Many thanks to Joe Conway for lighting the fire under me (by releasing unofficial RPMs -- that's a good sign 'you're late Lamar!'); as well as 'thanks' for this ice storm that kept me home today to do this..... :-) (otherwise, I had (have) a deskful of Real Work piled up.....) The source RPM is up; the binaries are on their way as I hit send. There are significant changes in this RPM from previous releases. Most significantly there is experimental support for multiple postmasters, courtesy Karl DeBisschop. Next most significantly, upgrading the server subpackage from a previous major version IS NOT SUPPORTED. AT ALL. If an rpm -U works for you without you going through odd RPM measures for postgresql-server-7.3-1PGDG.i386.rpm, then I've made an error somewhere, because the upgrade lock worked here :-). Upgrading must be done by dumping the old database out, rpm -e the old server subpackage, install the new server subpackage, start the new postmaster (initdb is automatic on first start when using the supplied initscript), and restore your data. Upgrading the remainder of the subpackages IS supported -- you may upgrade everything but the server subpackage, migrate your data, and do the dump/restore dance. Also, due to the client-side splitout in CVS and the tarball, there have been significant changes to the packaging. Most notably, there is no more postgresql-perl subpackage. Nor is there a postgresql-odbc, or postgresql-tk (which really was primarily pgaccess, which is separate now -- and the pgtksh client is now rolled into the postgresql-tcl package IF the tk client was built at rpmbuild time). The libpq++ and libpgeasy libraries are gone -- everything that used to be in the main tarball but isn't anymore, basically, is gone from this RPM set. Oddly enough you will need the Pg module installed for some of the contrib code to actually work..... With separate builds will come separate RPMS -- which I may or may not maintain.....anyone who wishes to may for those clients. To whomever inherits the Pg build kludgage I bequeath the building section of the 7.2.3 RPMset's spec file -- good luck (and good riddance to the kludgage). The non-plpgsql procedural languages share a subpackage called postgresql-pl -- that is, if they were built. Switches internal to the rpm sepc file control the individual pieces that are built -- Red Hat 8.0 will build all three PL's just fine, but Red Hat 7.3 won't build plperl in its default incarnation. So there is no more postgresql-plperl subpackage. There are additions to the contrib package, as well as migrations from the contrib package to the server package -- pg_resetxlog and pg_controldata in particular. The contrib files are installed in the expected places -- executables in /usr/bin, libraries in /usr/lib/pgsql. Regression passes (on Red Hat 8.0) on all but select_having, which fails due to collation sequence issues (with the tests run in the installed binary environment, not as 'make installcheck'). Other changes may be forthcoming depending upon user feedback. :-) (that is, if you complain enough about something I can deal with in the packaging, then you might get your wish -- just don't complain to me about the lack of upgrading support -- that part is not my fault.) In particular, if you are the package maintainer in charge of PostgreSQL for a Linux distribution, I really want to hear from you. (I have heard from two). The postgresql-python subpackage requires the 'mx' extensions to be installed in order to work -- but not build! Red Hat 7.3 and up include the mx package. The README.rpm-dist file has been updated to reflect these packaging changes. One BIG note: if you miss '-i' on the postmaster options, you need to take a look at /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf, and study the 'tcpip_sockets' parameter. Do NOT edit the initscript -- it will be overwritten during the next upgrade. Rebuilding from the source RPM is detailed in README.rpm-dist (with a minor typo). The typo is 'use rpm -ba' -- which doesn't work on any distribution with RPM 4.1 installed (such as Red Hat 8). You will need to use 'rpmbuild -ba' or 'rpmbuild --rebuild' instead -- which also will work on RPM 4.0.x boxen. The recent entries in the CHANGELOG for the spec file are as follows (it refers to 7.3-0.5PGDG, and should have read 7.3-1PGDG, but the source RPM was already uploaded before I caught it -- and at 33.6 dialup (that's bouncing up and down like a yoyo due to periodic telephone service interruptions) a 10MB file takes a little time to upload (as in a couple of hours or more), and it's an insignificant change.): %changelog * Wed Dec 04 2002 Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 7.3-0.5PGDG - Jerk out all perl client stuff and kludgage - Rename plperl subpackage to a pl subpackage containing all but PL/Pgsql PL's - Eliminate locale and multibyte explicit enables -- they are both defaults now - Eliminate pgaccess code; it's not a part of the main tarball anymore - Eliminate ODBC stuff -- it's also separate now. Use unixODBC instead. - Eliminated separate tk client package -- rolled the tk client into the tcl client. - Moved pltcl into the pl subpackage. - Added plpython to the pl subpackage. - /etc/sysconfig/pgsql is sysconfdir for multiple postmaster startup. * Mon Dec 02 2002 Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 7.3-0.1PGDG (not released) - Integrate 7.3 jar's courtesy Joe Conway - Integrate multi-postmaster initscript courtesy Karl DeBisschop - Some renames and restructures. - Stripped out the last dregs of the postgresql-dump migration script. - Conflicts with less than 7.3. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
