Right now, we support PostgreSQL 9.0 through 9.4 on RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux/Scientific Linux 5,6,7 and Fedora 20,21, 32 bit and 64 bit archs. This year, we also moved to git, which is hopefully another step forward for more collabration.

Towards the end of Aug 2011, we finally moved to our final location, which is, means now this repo is the 'official' yum repo of the PostgreSQL project. and they also needed 3rd party packages, like Slony, pgAdmin, pgbouncer, etc., so repo started to grow.

Users were experiencing a problem: Using Red Hat / Fedora supplied RPMs were usually behind the 'latest' version of PostgreSQL, and people who wanted to keep up-to-date with PostgreSQL had to build from sources. The idea was supporting all active PostgreSQL releases for various distros. We hosted a machine at Darcy's house, and used it to build the RPMs, then pushed them to a yum repo.

Drake at Command Prompt, the first 'RPM Buildfarm' concept appeared. Then, Lamar did not have enough time for the RPMs, and I stepped up the plate!Īfter moving to Canada around 2007, with help of Darcy Buskermolen and Joshua D. After I started uploading them to my personal server, I noticed people downloading and using them - which encouraged me to maintain them more. When Lamar Owen was working on the community RPMs and Tom Lane was working on Red Hat RPMs, I needed PostgreSQL RPMs on the Red Hat version that I was using, so I used to rebuild the SRPMs provided by Lamar. With thousands of active users, 5 major distros on 9 architectures, hundreds of RPMs and multiple PostgreSQL version support, the PostgreSQL YUM repository is arguably one of the well-known PostgreSQL community project.

Postgresql yum repo