Updating an RPM installation v15
If you have an existing EDB Postgres Advanced Server RPM installation, you can use yum or dnf to upgrade your repository configuration file and update to a more recent product version.
To update the edb.repo
file, assume superuser privileges and enter:
On RHEL or CentOS 7:
On RHEL or Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8:
yum or dnf updates the edb.repo
file to enable access to the current EDB repository, configured to connect with the credentials specified in your edb.repo
file. Then, you can use yum or dnf to upgrade all packages whose names include the expression edb
:
On RHEL or CentOS 7:
On RHEL or Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux 8:
Note
The yum upgrade
or dnf upgrade
commands perform an update only between minor releases. To update between major releases, use pg_upgrade
.
For more information about using yum commands and options, enter yum --help
at the command line.
For more information about using dnf commands and options, see the dnf documentation.