Installing Advanced Storage Pack

The Advanced Storage Pack is supported on the same platforms as the Postgres distribution you’re using. Support for Advanced Storage Pack starts with Postgres 11. For details, see:

• EDB Postgres Advanced Server Product Compatibility

• PostgreSQL Product Compatibility

• EDB Postgres Distributed (includes EDB Postgres Extended)

Prerequisites

Before you begin the installation process:

• Install Postgres. See: - Installing EDB Postgres Advanced Server

• Installing PostgreSQL

• Installing EDB Postgres Distributed (includes EDB Postgres Extended)

• Set up the repository.

Setting up the repository is a one-time task. If you have already set up your repository, you don’t need to perform this step.

To set up the repository, go to EDB repositories and follow the instructions provided there.

Install the package

The syntax for the RPM package install command is:

sudo <package-manager> -y install edb-<postgres><postgres_version>-advanced-storage-pack<major_version>

The syntax for the Debian package install command is:

sudo <package-manager> -y install edb-<postgres><postgres_version>-advanced-storage-pack-<major_version>

Where:

• <package-manager> is the package manager used with your operating system:

Package manager	Operating system
dnf	RHEL 8 and derivatives
yum	RHEL 7 and derivatives, CentOS 7
zypper	SLES
apt-get	Debian and derivatives

• <postgres> is the distribution of Postgres you’re using:

Postgres distribution	Value
PostgreSQL	pg
EDB Postgres Advanced Server	as
EDB Postgres Extended	pgextended

• <postgres_version> is the version of Postgres you’re using.

• <major_version> is the major version of Advanced Storage Pack you’re installing.

For example, to install Advanced Storage Pack 1.0.0 for EDB Postgres Advanced Server 14 on a RHEL 8 platform:

sudo dnf -y install edb-as14-advanced-storage-pack1

To install Advanced Storage Pack 1.0.0 for EDB Postgres Advanced Server 14 on a Debian 11 platform:

sudo apt-get -y install edb-pg15-advanced-storage-pack-1