Install Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives

This document describes how to install Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL from Percona repositories on RPM-based distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and compatible derivatives.

Platform specific notes

To install Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, do the following:

For Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL packages

CentOS 7RHEL8/Oracle Linux 8/Rocky Linux 8

Install the epel-release package:

$ sudo yum -y install epel-release
$ sudo yum repolist

Disable the postgresql module:

$ sudo dnf module disable postgresql

For percona-postgresql13-devel package

You may need to install the percona-postgresql13-devel package when working with some extensions or creating programs that interface with PostgreSQL database. This package requires dependencies that are not part of the Distribution, but can be installed from the specific repositories:

RHEL8Rocky Linux 8Oracle Linux 8Rocky Linux 9Oracle Linux 9

$ sudo yum --enablerepo=codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-rhui-rpms 
$ sudo dnf install perl-IPC-Run -y

$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
$ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools

$ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled ol8_codeready_builder 
$ sudo dnf install perl-IPC-Run -y

$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
$ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
$ sudo dnf install perl-IPC-Run -y

$ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled ol9_codeready_builder 
$ sudo dnf install perl-IPC-Run -y

For percona-patroni package

To install Patroni on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and compatible derivatives, enable the epel repository

$ sudo yum install epel-release

For pgpool2 extension

To install pgpool2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and compatible derivatives, enable the codeready builder repository first to resolve the dependencies conflict.

The following are commands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and derivatives. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, replace the operating system version in the commands accordingly.

RHEL 9Rocky Linux 9Oracle Linux 9

$ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms

$ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb

$ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled ol9_codeready_builder

For PostGIS

The following commands provide instructions how to enable required repositories and modules on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and derivatives.

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and derivatives, replace the operating system version in the commands accordingly.

RHEL 9Rocky Linux 9Oracle Linux 9RHEL UBI 9

Run the following commands:

1. Install epel repository

   $ sudo yum install epel-release
   

2. Enable the codeready builder repository to resolve dependencies conflict.

   $ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
   

Run the following commands:

1. Install epel repository

   $ sudo yum install epel-release
   

2. Enable the codeready builder repository to resolve dependencies conflict.

   $ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
   $ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
   

Run the following commands:

1. Install epel repository

   $ sudo yum install epel-release
   

2. Enable the codeready builder repository to resolve dependencies conflict.

   $ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled ol9_codeready_builder
   

Run the following commands:

1. Configure the Oracle-Linux repository. Create the /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-linux-ol9.repo file to install the required dependencies:

   /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-linux-ol9.repo

   [ol9_baseos_latest]
   name=Oracle Linux 9 BaseOS Latest ($basearch)
   baseurl=https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/baseos/latest/$basearch/
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
   gpgcheck=1
   enabled=1     
   
   [ol9_appstream]
   name=Oracle Linux 9 Application Stream ($basearch)
   baseurl=https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/appstream/$basearch/
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
   gpgcheck=1
   enabled=1     
   
   [ol9_codeready_builder]
   name=Oracle Linux 9 CodeReady Builder ($basearch) - Unsupported
   baseurl=https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/codeready/builder/$basearch/
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
   gpgcheck=1
   enabled=1
   

2. Download the right GPG key for the Oracle Yum Repository:

   $ wget https://yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-ol9 -O /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
   

3. Install epel repository

   $ sudo yum install epel-release
   

Procedure

Run all the commands in the following sections as root or using the sudo command.

Install dependencies

Install curl for Telemetry. We use it to better understand the use of our products and improve them.

$ sudo yum -y install curl

Configure the repository

1. Install the percona-release repository management tool to subscribe to Percona repositories:

   $ sudo yum install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
   

2. Enable the repository

Percona provides two repositories for Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. We recommend enabling the Major release repository to timely receive the latest updates.

To enable a repository, we recommend using the setup command:

$ sudo percona-release setup ppg13

Install packages

Install using meta-package (deprecated)Install packages individually

$ sudo yum install percona-ppg-server13

Run the following commands:

1. Install the PostgreSQL server package:

   $ sudo yum install percona-postgresql13-server
   

2. Install the components:

   Install pg_repack:

   $ sudo yum install percona-pg_repack13
   

   Install pgaudit:

   $ sudo yum install percona-pgaudit13
   

   Install pgBackRest:

   $ sudo yum install percona-pgbackrest
   

   Install Patroni:

   $ sudo yum install percona-patroni
   

   Install pg_stat_monitor:

   Install pgBouncer:

   $ sudo yum install percona-pgbouncer
   

   Install pgAudit-set_user:

   $ sudo yum install percona-pgaudit13_set_user
   

   Install pgBadger:

   $ sudo yum install percona-pgbadger
   

   Install wal2json:

   $ sudo yum install percona-wal2json13
   

   Install PostgreSQL contrib extensions:

   $ sudo yum install percona-postgresql13-contrib
   

   Install HAProxy

   $ sudo yum install percona-haproxy
   

   Install pg_gather

   $ sudo yum install percona-pg_gather
   

   Install pgpool2

   1. Check the platform specific notes

   2. Install the extension

      $ sudo yum install percona-pgpool-II-pg13
      

   Install pgvector package suite:

   $ sudo yum install percona-pgvector_13 percona-pgvector_13-debuginfo percona-pgvector_13-debugsource percona-pgvector_13-llvmjit
   

   Some extensions require additional setup in order to use them with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. For more information, refer to Enabling extensions.

Start the service

After the installation, the default database storage is not automatically initialized. To complete the installation and start Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, initialize the database using the following command:

$ /usr/pgsql-13/bin/postgresql-13-setup initdb

Start the PostgreSQL service:

$ sudo systemctl start postgresql-13

Congratulations! Your Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is up and running.

Next steps

Enable extensions

Connect to PostgreSQL