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  1. ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
  2. ZBX-27112

Cannot use TimescaleDB with AlmaLinux 8 system PostgreSQL 16 in Zabbix due to RPM dependency on PGDG packages

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    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    • 7.0.18
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      Environment:
      **

      [11:41:29] [[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="AlmaLinux"
VERSION="8.10 (Cerulean Leopard)"
ID="almalinux"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.10"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="AlmaLinux 8.10 (Cerulean Leopard)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
LOGO="fedora-logo-icon"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:almalinux:almalinux:8::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://almalinux.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.almalinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.almalinux.org/"ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT="AlmaLinux-8"
ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8.10"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="AlmaLinux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.10"
SUPPORT_END=2029-06-01
[11:45:32] [[email protected] ~]# psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 16.10
[11:45:32] [[email protected] ~]# rpm -q zabbix-server-pgsql
zabbix-server-pgsql-7.0.18-release3.el8.x86_64

      Steps to reproduce:

      1. dnf module reset postgresql -y
      1. dnf module enable postgresql:16 -y
      1. dnf install -y postgresql-server postgresql-contrib
      1. postgresql-setup --initdb
      1. systemctl enable --now postgresql
      1. curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/timescale/timescaledb/script.rpm.sh | bash
      1. dnf install timescaledb-2-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8 timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8

      Result:

      dnf install timescaledb-2-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8 timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:15 ago on Thu 16 Oct 2025 11:41:13 AM UTC.
Error:
 Problem 1: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides postgresql16 >= 16.0 needed by timescaledb-2-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8.x86_64 from timescale_timescaledb
  - nothing provides postgresql16-server >= 16.0 needed by timescaledb-2-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8.x86_64 from timescale_timescaledb
 Problem 2: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides postgresql16 >= 16.0 needed by timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8.x86_64 from timescale_timescaledb
  - nothing provides postgresql16-server >= 16.0 needed by timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql-16-2.16.1-0.el8.x86_64 from timescale_timescaledb
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

      Expected:
      To correctly install timescaledb with postgresql

      Similar issue was reported in case:
      https://support.zabbix.com/si/jira.issueviews:issue-html/ZBX-19801/ZBX-19801.html
      Where  yurii  managed to fix it.

            yurii Jurijs Klopovskis
            JakubMQlos Jakub
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