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Correct postgresql installation steps

Alejandro Guerrero requested to merge alejguer-master-patch-44184 into master

What does this MR do?

This MR corrects the steps to install postgresql when installing via source, on Ubuntu 18.4 and earlier versions, specifically, the following line:

   RELEASE=$(lsb_release -cs) echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ ${RELEASE}"-pgdg main | sudo tee  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list

This command does not set register the correct repository, the RELEASE variable is never set and the following error is thrown on the next step:

The repository 'http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt -pgdg Release' does not have a Release file.

The solution is to first execute RELEASE=$(lsb_release -cs) in its own line to set the variable, and then run the rest of the command in a new line.

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Edited by James Lopes

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