I have been needing to upgrade the PostgreSQL servers at my work for awhile now and was finally forced to do so after needing some of the features available with PostgreSQL 8.4.X. Currently we are running PostgreSQL 8.3.10 which is super old but it is definitely not the latest stable release available. One thing I…
When installing packages via yum, with repository additions, on CentOS it is possible to get a warning stating a various package is not signed. There are numerous reasons a package may not be signed so verify the source of the package is legit and if so move forward using the below command.
Keeping PostgreSQL updated via yum should be done via the pgdg yum repository supplied by pgsqlrpms.org. The latest CentOS PostgreSQL repo can be viewed here. You will need to download the repo and then install using rpm as shown below. bash wget http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/reporpms/8.4/pgdg-centos-8.4-1.noarch.rpm rpm -Uhv pgdg-centos-8.4-1.noarch.rpm Another helpful postgresql install and management link is located…