Postgres 10 setup and testrun on Redhat Linux 7
This is just a quick guide to get up and running with Postgres 10 on redhat linux 7 As of the writing of this quick guide, yum install postgresql-server does not allow you to install version 10. Instead, we do As root: yum install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/10/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat10-10-2.noarch.rpm Install Client Package yum install -y postgresql10 Install Server Package yum install -y postgresql10-server I always seem to have to initialize the database manually, so here it is. /usr/pgsql-10/bin/postgresql-10-setup initdb We need to now switch to os user postgres su - postgres Run psql command line console, aka PostgreSQL interactive terminal -bash-4.2$ psql psql (10.5) Type "help" for help. postgres=