We had the pleasure of doing a fresh install of PostgreSQL 8.3.5 on RedHat EL4 box and when using the Yum repository, we noticed a couple of changes from last time we did this.
This could have been an oversight in our documentation before.
Changes to Yum Install for 8.3.5?
In our April 2008 issue we had An Almost Idiot's Guide to PostgreSQL YUM
and that article still seems to be surprisingly popular.
In the first step we had:
yum install postgresql
and that as I recall installed the postgresql server in addition to some client libraries.
For 8.3.5 fresh install it seems they are separated and to get the postgresql server you need to do:
yum install postgresql
yum install postgresql-server
Continue reading "Yum addendum for 8.3.5 and PgAgent"
PostGIS 1.3.4 is finally out the door. This version has:
- Support for 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 beta
- GEOS 2.2.3, GEOS 3.0.3, GEOS 3.1 beta
- Numerous bug fixes and speed improvements
- Slightly better documentation
- addition of function comments to help guide new users while in the psql or pgAdmin environment
- One new function ST_AsGeoJSON to support javascript apis such as OpenLayers.
Some advanced GEOS functions such as ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology and ST_CoveredBy (both released
in 1.3.3) will not be installed unless you are running GEOS 3.0 or above.
Continue reading "PostGIS 1.3.4 is finally out the door"
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