Thank you all. This group is amazingly helpful. The combinations of emails and the document linked below did the trick.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > David Bear wrote: > >> I have RHEL 5.4 (64bit) that has a postgresql-lib 8.1 installed to satisfy >> dependancy for a dozen other packages including apache, php and other apache >> modules, and subversion. >> >> I want to install postresql 8.3 but yum informs me of the version conflict >> of the library. May i safely just over write the postgresql-lib with the 8.3 >> lib ?? >> > > No. I wrote a detailed guide to exactly how to step around this problem by > installing the compat-postgresql-libs package provided by the PostgreSQL 8.3 > package set you may find useful: > http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm<http://www.westnet.com/%7Egsmith/content/postgresql/pgrpm.htm> > > -- > Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD > PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support > g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us > > -- David Bear College of Public Programs at ASU 602-494-0424
