Installing BDR is easy. The software is available as a source package, and it can be deployed directly as a binary package. Of course, it is also possible to install the code from source. However, it is likely that this procedure might change, as more and more changes are moved into the core of PostgreSQL. Therefore, I have decided to skip the source installation.
In previous chapters, you learned how to install BDR on Linux using precompiled binary packages of the software. The Linux distribution chosen to show how the installation works is CentOS 7 (to find information about other packages, check out http://bdr-project.org/docs/stable/installation.html).
The installation process itself is easy. First, repo can be installed:
yum install http://packages.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-bdr94-2ndquadrant/yum-repo-rpms/postgresql-bdr94-2ndquadrant-redhat-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
In the next step, BDR can be deployed:
yum install postgresql-bdr94-bdr
Once BDR has been...