[ADMIN] Installing Postgres - newbie

2004-11-04 Thread Pallav Kalva
Hi, I am installing Postgres for the first time on my Linux machine , I found the following RPM packages for the RedHat 9 postgresql-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm postgresql-contrib-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm postgresql-devel-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm postgresql-docs-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm postgre

Re: [ADMIN] Installing Postgres - newbie

2004-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Pallav Kalva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do i know which one is for installing the Postgres server and > what are the other packages for ? You could read the package descriptions ... > do i have to install all these packages too ? Might as well. The ones that could reasonably be cons

Re: [ADMIN] Installing Postgres - newbie

2004-11-04 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Pallav Kalva wrote: I am installing Postgres for the first time on my Linux machine , I found the following RPM packages for the RedHat 9 postgresql-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm postgresql-contrib-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm postgresq

Re: [ADMIN] Installing Postgres - newbie

2004-11-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Pallav Kalva wrote: > How do i know which one is for installing the Postgres server and > what are the other packages for ? rpm -qpi packagefile -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you

Re: [ADMIN] Installing Postgres - newbie

2004-11-04 Thread Pallav Kalva
Thanks! for all the quick replies, looks like it is better to install all the packages as our environment needs all of them. I was under the impression that (postgresql-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm or postgresql-server-7.4.6-2PGDG.i686.rpm ) one of these packages is the super set of all the packages an