RE: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
In general I am pretty pissed at RH attitude to system upgrade, if I were working in a Production environment, I would either hire them and not try anything myself, which kinda contradicts the whole Linux philosophy. Can this kind of stuff get put on a Red Hat mailing list, rather than sent here? Thanks! Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
It also relates back to a post I made many moons ago. I don't upgrade any OS (outside of minor patches). If it is a new OS version, backup and then clean install. Just too many variables to contend with to trust a type of upgrade script. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company - Original Message - From: "Steve Wolfe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0 I was the original poster. Really my confusion stemmed from the fact that upgrading from RH6.0 to RH7.0, 7.0 complained (during boot) that my Postgress verision was outdated I need to upgrade. This threw me off. Yeah, the init script that they provide checks what's in PG_VERSION, and tells you to upgrade. The bad side is that it may have already overwritten your old binaries, etc., making it difficult to do a dump. You'd have to reinstall the old one, do the dump, then upgrade PostgreSQL, and then reinsert. Hopefully, their upgrade system was smart enough to not blindly overwrite your old PostgreSQL installation. If it did blindy overwrite it, then it's a very poorly written "upgrade", even Microsoft does better than that in a lot of situations. It would give further validation to my refusal to ever use RedHat's upgrade procedure. This isn't to say that RedHat is the devil. Just that like all *nix varieties, it has it's own behavioural deficiencies that need to be recognized and worked around. If there was a *nix that didn't have deficiencies, then all of the other varieties would quickly go away. In general I am pretty pissed at RH attitude to system upgrade, if I were working in a Production environment, I would either hire them and not try anything myself, which kinda contradicts the whole Linux philosophy. Well, it certainly doesn't contradict the RedHat philosophy of "Give them the product for free, then charge for support." ; )
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
I wouldn't say ditch out on Redhat because of Postgres upgrades. As was mentioned on the list before, there is no current silver bullet upgrade for postgres. Dump, install new version, import old data. I would assume then that means SUSE would be no better on that regard either. Also, any bad experiences I have had with Redhat are not with Redhat themselves, per se. Mainly with RPMs. They really just don't mix well with applications you compile... OK, and maybe the occasional wierd directory structure that goes on, but other than that, I still choose them over other distributions. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company - Original Message - From: "os390 ibmos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0 Exactly my point. My next Linux server that I build is going to be SUSE, atleast some guys are not in a hurry to go public. From: "Steve Wolfe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, it certainly doesn't contradict the RedHat philosophy of "Give them the product for free, then charge for support." ; ) _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
"Robert D. Nelson" wrote: In general I am pretty pissed at RH attitude to system upgrade, if I were working in a Production environment, I would either hire them and not try anything myself, which kinda contradicts the whole Linux philosophy. Can this kind of stuff get put on a Red Hat mailing list, rather than sent here? Thanks! pgsql-ports for PostgreSQL related stuff. I will announce soon some exciting news related to the RPM's, as well as a dedicated 'postgresqlrpms' mailing list, and the RPM spec files, patches, etc, under a public CVS server. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
"Adam Lang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it don't help if you downloaded the OS. ;) You can of course find it on the ftp site as well, in the RPMS directory. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
Adam Lang wrote: But it don't help if you downloaded the OS. ;) If you downloaded the RedHat CD ISO images, OR the ftp dirs, you got the postgresql RPM's, unless you specifically excluded them. And you can certainly get them from RedHat's ftp site, as busy as it is. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
Yeah I know. I mentioned the redhat website when I first replied to the post. Which leads me to a question. Why do so many people ask the list where the most current RPMS for Redhat are located? Not trying to start trouble, but doesn't it seem obvious to check the Redhat site? Just wierd that so many people ask where to find them... Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company - Original Message - From: "Lamar Owen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Adam Lang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0 Adam Lang wrote: But it don't help if you downloaded the OS. ;) If you downloaded the RedHat CD ISO images, OR the ftp dirs, you got the postgresql RPM's, unless you specifically excluded them. And you can certainly get them from RedHat's ftp site, as busy as it is. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
Adam Lang wrote: Which leads me to a question. Why do so many people ask the list where the most current RPMS for Redhat are located? Not trying to start trouble, but doesn't it seem obvious to check the Redhat site? Just wierd that so many people ask where to find them... Well, we maintain RPM's ourselves (or should I say, I maintain RPM's myself) -- but due to the lack of a RedHat 7 machine for me to build on (at this time) the best place to get RedHat 7 RPM's is with RedHat 7. I just announced the newest set -- there will be more announcements later this week or early next week as I build binaries on other architectures (I'm even working on building Hercules so I can build/rebuild for S/390 on my Intel box -- Hercules is an ESA/390 emulator -- slow as Christmas, but will run Linux/390 well enough to build/rebuild RPM's. My goal is posting working S/390 binaries on ftp.postgresql.org -- the coolness factor alone is worth the work) and other distributions (such as TurboLinux, Caldera eServer, and SuSE -- although SuSE has a 7.0.2 RPMset of their own that is substantially different from ours, even though it is based on ours). Unless someone want to offer me a shell and build privileges on a Linux/390 VM on their real S/390 :-). In fact, I'm requesting that people running something other than RedHat 6.2 on Intel try to --rebuild the src.rpm I just posted so that I can get binaries for multiple architectures. If you need to patch the spec file or whatever else to get it to run, send the patches my way so we can make it just a simple --rebuild for most folks. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
I was the original poster. Really my confusion stemmed from the fact that upgrading from RH6.0 to RH7.0, 7.0 complained (during boot) that my Postgress verision was outdated I need to upgrade. This threw me off. In general I am pretty pissed at RH attitude to system upgrade, if I were working in a Production environment, I would either hire them and not try anything myself, which kinda contradicts the whole Linux philosophy. Yeah I know. I mentioned the redhat website when I first replied to the post. Which leads me to a question. Why do so many people ask the list where the most current RPMS for Redhat are located? Not trying to start trouble, but doesn't it seem obvious to check the Redhat site? Just wierd that so many people ask where to find them... Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company - Original Message - From: "Lamar Owen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Adam Lang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0 Adam Lang wrote: But it don't help if you downloaded the OS. ;) If you downloaded the RedHat CD ISO images, OR the ftp dirs, you got the postgresql RPM's, unless you specifically excluded them. And you can certainly get them from RedHat's ftp site, as busy as it is. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0
I am upgrading from RH 6.0 to RH 7.0. Dos anybody know where I can find the rpms for Postgres to work on RH7.0. Thanks, === arijit _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
