If you are using a Amazon Linux 2 based Ec2 instance, to install and run postgresql tools like psql and pg_dump, today the highest versions of postgres tools available from the repository is postgres 14. You can check the currently available versions using the following command
amazon-linux-extras | grep -i postgre
amazon-linux-extras | grep -i postgre
6 postgresql10 available [ =10 =stable ]
41 postgresql11 available [ =11 =stable ]
58 postgresql12 available [ =stable ]
59 postgresql13 available [ =stable ]
63 postgresql14 available [ =stable ]This command will list versions postgres 10 through 14.
You can enable the Redhat repositories for postgres on your amazon linux 2 host, and install the postgres 15.x client from those repositories. The steps are as follows.
- Upgrade to the latest version of amazon linux 2 (Optional)
- If you already have a postgres package installed consider removing it.
- Enable the postgres repo for redhat linux
- create a new file /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg.repo
- Add the following lines to pgdg.repo
- [pgdg15]
- name=PostgreSQL 15 for Redhat Linux – x86_64
- baseurl=https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/15/redhat/rhel-7.10-x86_64
- enabled=1
- gpgcheck=0
- sudo yum makecache
- sudo yum repolist (ensure that pgdg15 shows as a repository)
- sudo yum install libzstd
- sudo yum –disablerepo=”*” –enablerepo=”pgdg15″ install postgresql15-15.3-1PGDG.rhel7 (To get postgres 15.3)
Now you should have 15.3 versions of psql and pg_dump etc
