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While we developed EAS under postgresql 8.3.7, installing 8.3.7 was giving us trouble. 8.3.11 was available via YUM and once we used YUM the install went smoothly.Using YUM is the way to go.

I followed these instructions:

• http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/45-An-Almost-Idiots-Guide-to-PostgreSQL-YUM.html

Once you have YUM configured to use only the postgres respositories and not the Centos repos , follow these steps for (see above), the following steps provide a pain free installation:.

yum install postgresql
yum install postgresql-devel
yum install postgresql-server
yum install postgis
yum install postgresql-contrib

Additional Links

• http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/YUM_Installationhttp://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/45-An-Almost-Idiots-Guide-to-PostgreSQL-YUM.html

Initializing Database

Our Oracle trained DBAs decided to intialize the DB here

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