Learning is an Art » database server http://www.singhvishwajeet.com My experiences Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:03:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Installing PostgreSQL on Centos/RHEL http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2010/05/07/installing-postgresql-on-centosrhel/ http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2010/05/07/installing-postgresql-on-centosrhel/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 20:13:13 +0000 Vishwajeet Singh http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/?p=380 To install latest version of postgresql we first we need to add pgdg repository to list of repositories open terminal and fire following commands, you need to be root.

wget http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/reporpms/8.4/pgdg-redhat-8.4-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uhv pgdg-redhat-8.4-1.noarch.rpm

Once repository is installed properly use yum to install postgresql as shown below

yum install postgresql
yum install postgresql-server

You can do above in a single line choice is yours.

Initialize the database

initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

Start the database server

pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

Voila your database server is setup and ready to use.

 

]]> http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2010/05/07/installing-postgresql-on-centosrhel/feed/ 1