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PostgreSQL Installation Instructions
This document describes the installation of PostgreSQL from the source
code distribution.
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Short Version
./configure
gmake
su
gmake install
adduser postgres
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
su - postgres
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
The long version is the rest of this document.
_________________________________________________________________
Requirements
In general, a modern Unix-compatible platform should be able to run
PostgreSQL. The platforms that had received specific testing at the
time of release are listed in the section called Supported Platforms
below. In the "doc" subdirectory of the distribution there are several
platform-specific FAQ documents you might wish to consult if you are
having trouble.
The following software packages are required for building PostgreSQL:
* GNU make is required; other make programs will *not* work. GNU
make is often installed under the name "gmake"; this document will
always refer to it by that name. (On some systems GNU make is the
default tool with the name "make".) To test for GNU make enter
gmake --version
It is recommended to use version 3.76.1 or later.
* You need an ISO/ANSI C compiler. Recent versions of GCC are
recommendable, but PostgreSQL is known to build with a wide
variety of compilers from different vendors.
* gzip is needed to unpack the distribution in the first place. If
you are reading this, you probably already got past that hurdle.
* The GNU Readline library (for comfortable line editing and command
history retrieval) will be used by default. If you don't want to
use it then you must specify the "--without-readline" option for
"configure". (On NetBSD, the "libedit" library is
Readline-compatible and is used if "libreadline" is not found.)
* To build on Windows NT or Windows 2000 you need the Cygwin and
cygipc packages. See the file "doc/FAQ_MSWIN" for details.
The following packages are optional. They are not required in the
default configuration, but they are needed when certain build options
are enabled, as explained below.
* To build the server programming language PL/Perl you need a full
Perl installation, including the "libperl" library and the header
files. Since PL/Perl will be a shared library, the "libperl"
library must be a shared library also on most platforms. This
appears to be the default in recent Perl versions, but it was not
in earlier versions, and in general it is the choice of whomever
installed Perl at your site.
If you don't have the shared library but you need one, a message
like this will appear during the build to point out this fact:
*** Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library.
*** You might have to rebuild your Perl installation. Refer to
*** the documentation for details.
(If you don't follow the on-screen output you will merely notice
that the PL/Perl library object, "plperl.so" or similar, will not
be installed.) If you see this, you will have to rebuild and
install Perl manually to be able to build PL/Perl. During the
configuration process for Perl, request a shared library.
* To build the PL/Python server programming language, you need a
Python installation, including the header files. Since PL/Python
will be a shared library, the "libpython" library must be a shared
library also on most platforms. This is not the case in a default
Python installation.
If after building and installing you have a file called
"plpython.so" (possibly a different extension), then everything
went well. Otherwise you should have seen a notice like this
flying by:
*** Cannot build PL/Python because libpython is not a shared library.
*** You might have to rebuild your Python installation. Refer to
*** the documentation for details.
That means you have to rebuild (part of) your Python installation
to supply this shared library.
The catch is that the Python distribution or the Python
maintainers do not provide any direct way to do this. The closest
thing we can offer you is the information in Python FAQ 3.30. On
some operating systems you don't really have to build a shared
library, but then you will have to convince the PostgreSQL build
system of this. Consult the "Makefile" in the "src/pl/plpython"
directory for details.
* If you want to build Tcl or Tk components (clients and the PL/Tcl
language) you of course need a Tcl installation.
* To build the JDBC driver, you need Ant 1.5 or higher and a JDK.
Ant is a special tool for building Java-based packages. It can be
downloaded from the Ant web site.
If you have several Java compilers installed, it depends on the
Ant configuration which one gets used. Precompiled Ant
distributions are typically set up to read a file ".antrc" in the
current user's home directory for configuration. For example, to
use a different JDK than the default, this may work:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/sun-jdk1.3
JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
Note: Do not try to build the driver by calling "ant" or even
"javac" directly. This will not work. Run "gmake" normally as
described below.
* To enable Native Language Support (NLS), that is, the ability to
display a program's messages in a language other than English, you
need an implementation of the Gettext API. Some operating systems
have this built-in (e.g., Linux, NetBSD, Solaris), for other
systems you can download an add-on package from here:
http://www.postgresql.org/~petere/gettext.html. If you are using
the Gettext implementation in the GNU C library then you will
additionally need the GNU Gettext package for some utility
programs. For any of the other implementations you will not need
it.
* Kerberos, OpenSSL, or PAM, if you want to support authentication
using these services.
If you are building from a CVS tree instead of using a released source
package, or if you want to do development, you also need the following
packages:
* Flex and Bison are needed to build a CVS checkout or if you
changed the actual scanner and parser definition files. If you
need them, be sure to get Flex 2.5.4 or later and Bison 1.875 or
later. Other yacc programs can sometimes be used, but doing so
requires extra effort and is not recommended. Other lex programs
will definitely not work.
If you need to get a GNU package, you can find it at your local GNU
mirror site (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a list) or at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/.
Also check that you have sufficient disk space. You will need about 65
MB for the source tree during compilation and about 15 MB for the
installation directory. An empty database cluster takes about 25 MB,
databases take about five times the amount of space that a flat text
file with the same data would take. If you are going to run the
regression tests you will temporarily need up to an extra 90 MB. Use
the "df" command to check for disk space.
_________________________________________________________________
If You Are Upgrading
The internal data storage format changes with new releases of
PostgreSQL. Therefore, if you are upgrading an existing installation
that does not have a version number "7.4.x", you must back up and
restore your data as shown here. These instructions assume that your
existing installation is under the "/usr/local/pgsql" directory, and
that the data area is in "/usr/local/pgsql/data". Substitute your
paths appropriately.
1. Make sure that your database is not updated during or after the
backup. This does not affect the integrity of the backup, but the
changed data would of course not be included. If necessary, edit
the permissions in the file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf"
(or equivalent) to disallow access from everyone except you.
2. To back up your database installation, type:
pg_dumpall > outputfile
If you need to preserve OIDs (such as when using them as foreign
keys), then use the "-o" option when running "pg_dumpall".
"pg_dumpall" does not save large objects. Check the documentation
if you need to do this.
To make the backup, you can use the "pg_dumpall" command from the
version you are currently running. For best results, however, try
to use the "pg_dumpall" command from PostgreSQL 7.4beta4, since
this version contains bug fixes and improvements over older
versions. While this advice might seem idiosyncratic since you
haven't installed the new version yet, it is advisable to follow
it if you plan to install the new version in parallel with the old
version. In that case you can complete the installation normally
and transfer the data later. This will also decrease the downtime.
3. If you are installing the new version at the same location as the
old one then shut down the old server, at the latest before you
install the new files:
kill -INT `cat /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`
Versions prior to 7.0 do not have this "postmaster.pid" file. If
you are using such a version you must find out the process ID of
the server yourself, for example by typing "ps ax | grep
postmaster", and supply it to the "kill" command.
On systems that have PostgreSQL started at boot time, there is
probably a start-up file that will accomplish the same thing. For
example, on a Red Hat Linux system one might find that
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql stop
works. Another possibility is "pg_ctl stop".
4. If you are installing in the same place as the old version then it
is also a good idea to move the old installation out of the way,
in case you have trouble and need to revert to it. Use a command
like this:
mv /usr/local/pgsql /usr/local/pgsql.old
After you have installed PostgreSQL 7.4beta4, create a new database
directory and start the new server. Remember that you must execute
these commands while logged in to the special database user account
(which you already have if you are upgrading).
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
Finally, restore your data with
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -d template1 -f outputfile
using the *new* psql.
These topics are discussed at length in the documentation, which you
are encouraged to read in any case.
_________________________________________________________________
Installation Procedure
1. Configuration
The first step of the installation procedure is to configure the
source tree for your system and choose the options you would like.
This is done by running the "configure" script. For a default
installation simply enter
./configure
This script will run a number of tests to guess values for various
system dependent variables and detect some quirks of your
operating system, and finally will create several files in the
build tree to record what it found. (You can also run "configure"
in a directory outside the source tree if you want to keep the
build directory separate.)
The default configuration will build the server and utilities, as
well as all client applications and interfaces that require only a
C compiler. All files will be installed under "/usr/local/pgsql"
by default.
You can customize the build and installation process by supplying
one or more of the following command line options to "configure":
--prefix=PREFIX
Install all files under the directory "PREFIX" instead of
"/usr/local/pgsql". The actual files will be installed
into various subdirectories; no files will ever be
installed directly into the "PREFIX" directory.
If you have special needs, you can also customize the
individual subdirectories with the following options.
--exec-prefix=EXEC-PREFIX
You can install architecture-dependent files under a
different prefix, "EXEC-PREFIX", than what "PREFIX" was
set to. This can be useful to share
architecture-independent files between hosts. If you omit
this, then "EXEC-PREFIX" is set equal to "PREFIX" and
both architecture-dependent and independent files will be
installed under the same tree, which is probably what you
want.
--bindir=DIRECTORY
Specifies the directory for executable programs. The
default is "EXEC-PREFIX/bin", which normally means
"/usr/local/pgsql/bin".
--datadir=DIRECTORY
Sets the directory for read-only data files used by the
installed programs. The default is "PREFIX/share". Note
that this has nothing to do with where your database
files will be placed.
--sysconfdir=DIRECTORY
The directory for various configuration files,
"PREFIX/etc" by default.
--libdir=DIRECTORY
The location to install libraries and dynamically
loadable modules. The default is "EXEC-PREFIX/lib".
--includedir=DIRECTORY
The directory for installing C and C++ header files. The
default is "PREFIX/include".
--docdir=DIRECTORY
Documentation files, except "man" pages, will be
installed into this directory. The default is
"PREFIX/doc".
--mandir=DIRECTORY
The man pages that come with PostgreSQL will be installed
under this directory, in their respective "manx"
subdirectories. The default is "PREFIX/man".
Note: Care has been taken to make it possible to install PostgreSQL
into shared installation locations (such as "/usr/local/include")
without interfering with the namespace of the rest of the system.
First, the string "/postgresql" is automatically appended to
datadir, sysconfdir, and docdir, unless the fully expanded
directory name already contains the string "postgres" or "pgsql".
For example, if you choose "/usr/local" as prefix, the
documentation will be installed in "/usr/local/doc/postgresql", but
if the prefix is "/opt/postgres", then it will be in
"/opt/postgres/doc". The public C header files of the client
interfaces are installed into includedir and are namespace-clean.
The internal header files and the server header files are installed
into private directories under includedir. See the documentation of
each interface for information about how to get at the its header
files. Finally, a private subdirectory will also be created, if
appropriate, under libdir for dynamically loadable modules.
--with-includes=DIRECTORIES
"DIRECTORIES" is a colon-separated list of directories
that will be added to the list the compiler searches for
header files. If you have optional packages (such as GNU
Readline) installed in a non-standard location, you have
to use this option and probably also the corresponding
"--with-libraries" option.
Example:
--with-includes=/opt/gnu/include:/usr/sup/include.
--with-libraries=DIRECTORIES
"DIRECTORIES" is a colon-separated list of directories to
search for libraries. You will probably have to use this
option (and the corresponding "--with-includes" option)
if you have packages installed in non-standard locations.
Example: --with-libraries=/opt/gnu/lib:/usr/sup/lib.
--enable-nls[=LANGUAGES]
Enables Native Language Support (NLS), that is, the
ability to display a program's messages in a language
other than English. "LANGUAGES" is a space separated list
of codes of the languages that you want supported, for
example --enable-nls='de fr'. (The intersection between
your list and the set of actually provided translations
will be computed automatically.) If you do not specify a
list, then all available translations are installed.
To use this option, you will need an implementation of
the Gettext API; see above.
--with-pgport=NUMBER
Set "NUMBER" as the default port number for server and
clients. The default is 5432. The port can always be
changed later on, but if you specify it here then both
server and clients will have the same default compiled
in, which can be very convenient. Usually the only good
reason to select a non-default value is if you intend to
run multiple PostgreSQL servers on the same machine.
--with-perl
Build the PL/Perl server-side language.
--with-python
Build the PL/Python server-side language.
--with-tcl
Build components that require Tcl/Tk, which are libpgtcl,
pgtclsh, pgtksh, and PL/Tcl. But see below about
"--without-tk".
--without-tk
If you specify "--with-tcl" and this option, then the
program that requires Tk (pgtksh) will be excluded.
--with-tclconfig=DIRECTORY, --with-tkconfig=DIRECTORY
Tcl/Tk installs the files "tclConfig.sh" and
"tkConfig.sh", which contain configuration information
needed to build modules interfacing to Tcl or Tk. These
files are normally found automatically at their
well-known locations, but if you want to use a different
version of Tcl or Tk you can specify the directory in
which to find them.
--with-java
Build the JDBC driver and associated Java packages.
--with-krb4[=DIRECTORY], --with-krb5[=DIRECTORY]
Build with support for Kerberos authentication. You can
use either Kerberos version 4 or 5, but not both. The
"DIRECTORY" argument specifies the root directory of the
Kerberos installation; "/usr/athena" is assumed as
default. If the relevant header files and libraries are
not under a common parent directory, then you must use
the "--with-includes" and "--with-libraries" options in
addition to this option. If, on the other hand, the
required files are in a location that is searched by
default (e.g., "/usr/lib"), then you can leave off the
argument.
"configure" will check for the required header files and
libraries to make sure that your Kerberos installation is
sufficient before proceeding.
--with-krb-srvnam=NAME
The name of the Kerberos service principal. postgres is
the default. There's probably no reason to change this.
--with-openssl[=DIRECTORY]
Build with support for SSL (encrypted) connections. This
requires the OpenSSL package to be installed. The
"DIRECTORY" argument specifies the root directory of the
OpenSSL installation; the default is "/usr/local/ssl".
"configure" will check for the required header files and
libraries to make sure that your OpenSSL installation is
sufficient before proceeding.
--with-pam
Build with PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
support.
--without-readline
Prevents the use of the Readline library. This disables
command-line editing and history in psql, so it is not
recommended.
--with-rendezvous
Build with Rendezvous support.
--disable-spinlocks
Allows source builds to succeed without CPU spinlock
support. Lack of spinlock support will produce poor
performance. This option is to be used only by platforms
lacking spinlock support.
--enable-thread-safety
Allow separate libpq and ecpg threads to safely control
their private connection handles.
--without-zlib
Prevents the use of the Zlib library. This disables
compression support in pg_dump. This option is only
intended for those rare systems where this library is not
available.
--enable-debug
Compiles all programs and libraries with debugging
symbols. This means that you can run the programs through
a debugger to analyze problems. This enlarges the size of
the installed executables considerably, and on non-GCC
compilers it usually also disables compiler optimization,
causing slowdowns. However, having the symbols available
is extremely helpful for dealing with any problems that
may arise. Currently, this option is recommended for
production installations only if you use GCC. But you
should always have it on if you are doing development
work or running a beta version.
--enable-cassert
Enables assertion checks in the server, which test for
many "can't happen" conditions. This is invaluable for
code development purposes, but the tests slow things down
a little. Also, having the tests turned on won't
necessarily enhance the stability of your server! The
assertion checks are not categorized for severity, and so
what might be a relatively harmless bug will still lead
to server restarts if it triggers an assertion failure.
Currently, this option is not recommended for production
use, but you should have it on for development work or
when running a beta version.
--enable-depend
Enables automatic dependency tracking. With this option,
the makefiles are set up so that all affected object
files will be rebuilt when any header file is changed.
This is useful if you are doing development work, but is
just wasted overhead if you intend only to compile once
and install. At present, this option will work only if
you use GCC.
If you prefer a C compiler different from the one "configure"
picks then you can set the environment variable CC to the program
of your choice. By default, "configure" will pick "gcc" unless
this is inappropriate for the platform. Similarly, you can
override the default compiler flags with the CFLAGS variable.
You can specify environment variables on the "configure" command
line, for example:
./configure CC=/opt/bin/gcc CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe'
2. Build
To start the build, type
gmake
(Remember to use GNU make.) The build may take anywhere from 5
minutes to half an hour depending on your hardware. The last line
displayed should be
All of PostgreSQL is successfully made. Ready to install.
3. Regression Tests
If you want to test the newly built server before you install it,
you can run the regression tests at this point. The regression
tests are a test suite to verify that PostgreSQL runs on your
machine in the way the developers expected it to. Type
gmake check
(This won't work as root; do it as an unprivileged user.) It is
possible that some tests fail, due to differences in error message
wording or floating point results. The file
"src/test/regress/README" and the documentation contain detailed
information about interpreting the test results. You can repeat
this test at any later time by issuing the same command.
4. Installing The Files
Note: If you are upgrading an existing system and are going to
install the new files over the old ones, then you should have
backed up your data and shut down the old server by now, as
explained in the section called If You Are Upgrading above.
To install PostgreSQL enter
gmake install
This will install files into the directories that were specified
in step 1. Make sure that you have appropriate permissions to
write into that area. Normally you need to do this step as root.
Alternatively, you could create the target directories in advance
and arrange for appropriate permissions to be granted.
You can use gmake install-strip instead of gmake install to strip
the executable files and libraries as they are installed. This
will save some space. If you built with debugging support,
stripping will effectively remove the debugging support, so it
should only be done if debugging is no longer needed.
install-strip tries to do a reasonable job saving space, but it
does not have perfect knowledge of how to strip every unneeded
byte from an executable file, so if you want to save all the disk
space you possibly can, you will have to do manual work.
The standard installation provides only the header files needed
for client application development. If you plan to do any
server-side program development (such as custom functions or data
types written in C), then you may want to install the entire
PostgreSQL include tree into your target include directory. To do
that, enter
gmake install-all-headers
This adds a megabyte or two to the installation footprint, and is
only useful if you don't plan to keep the whole source tree around
for reference. (If you do, you can just use the source's include
directory when building server-side software.)
Client-only installation: If you want to install only the client
applications and interface libraries, then you can use these
commands:
gmake -C src/bin install
gmake -C src/include install
gmake -C src/interfaces install
gmake -C doc install
Uninstallation: To undo the installation use the command "gmake
uninstall". However, this will not remove any created directories.
Cleaning: After the installation you can make room by removing the
built files from the source tree with the command "gmake clean". This
will preserve the files made by the "configure" program, so that you
can rebuild everything with "gmake" later on. To reset the source tree
to the state in which it was distributed, use "gmake distclean". If
you are going to build for several platforms from the same source tree
you must do this and re-configure for each build.
If you perform a build and then discover that your "configure" options
were wrong, or if you change anything that "configure" investigates
(for example, software upgrades), then it's a good idea to do "gmake
distclean" before reconfiguring and rebuilding. Without this, your
changes in configuration choices may not propagate everywhere they
need to.
_________________________________________________________________
Post-Installation Setup
Tuning
By default, PostgreSQL is configured to run on minimal hardware. This
allows it to start up with almost any hardware configuration. However,
the default configuration is not designed for optimum performance. To
achieve optimum performance, several server variables must be
adjusted, the two most common being shared_buffers and sort_mem
mentioned in the documentation . Other parameters in the documentation
also affect performance.
_________________________________________________________________
Shared Libraries
On some systems that have shared libraries (which most systems do) you
need to tell your system how to find the newly installed shared
libraries. The systems on which this is *not* necessary include
BSD/OS, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64 UNIX
(formerly Digital UNIX), and Solaris.
The method to set the shared library search path varies between
platforms, but the most widely usable method is to set the environment
variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH like so: In Bourne shells ("sh", "ksh",
"bash", "zsh")
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or in "csh" or "tcsh"
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/pgsql/lib
Replace /usr/local/pgsql/lib with whatever you set "--libdir" to in
step 1. You should put these commands into a shell start-up file such
as "/etc/profile" or "~/.bash_profile". Some good information about
the caveats associated with this method can be found at
http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html.
On some systems it might be preferable to set the environment variable
LD_RUN_PATH *before* building.
On Cygwin, put the library directory in the PATH or move the ".dll"
files into the "bin" directory.
If in doubt, refer to the manual pages of your system (perhaps "ld.so"
or "rld"). If you later on get a message like
psql: error in loading shared libraries
libpq.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
then this step was necessary. Simply take care of it then.
If you are on BSD/OS, Linux, or SunOS 4 and you have root access you
can run
/sbin/ldconfig /usr/local/pgsql/lib
(or equivalent directory) after installation to enable the run-time
linker to find the shared libraries faster. Refer to the manual page
of "ldconfig" for more information. On FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD
the command is
/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/pgsql/lib
instead. Other systems are not known to have an equivalent command.
_________________________________________________________________
Environment Variables
If you installed into "/usr/local/pgsql" or some other location that
is not searched for programs by default, you should add
"/usr/local/pgsql/bin" (or whatever you set "--bindir" to in step 1)
into your PATH. Strictly speaking, this is not necessary, but it will
make the use of PostgreSQL much more convenient.
To do this, add the following to your shell start-up file, such as
"~/.bash_profile" (or "/etc/profile", if you want it to affect every
user):
PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH
export PATH
If you are using "csh" or "tcsh", then use this command:
set path = ( /usr/local/pgsql/bin $path )
To enable your system to find the man documentation, you need to add
lines like the following to a shell start-up file unless you installed
into a location that is searched by default.
MANPATH=/usr/local/pgsql/man:$MANPATH
export MANPATH
The environment variables PGHOST and PGPORT specify to client
applications the host and port of the database server, overriding the
compiled-in defaults. If you are going to run client applications
remotely then it is convenient if every user that plans to use the
database sets PGHOST. This is not required, however: the settings can
be communicated via command line options to most client programs.
_________________________________________________________________
Getting Started
The following is a quick summary of how to get PostgreSQL up and
running once installed. The main documentation contains more
information.
1. Create a user account for the PostgreSQL server. This is the user
the server will run as. For production use you should create a
separate, unprivileged account ("postgres" is commonly used). If
you do not have root access or just want to play around, your own
user account is enough, but running the server as root is a
security risk and will not work.
adduser postgres
2. Create a database installation with the "initdb" command. To run
"initdb" you must be logged in to your PostgreSQL server account.
It will not work as root.
root# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
root# su - postgres
postgres$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
The "-D" option specifies the location where the data will be
stored. You can use any path you want, it does not have to be
under the installation directory. Just make sure that the server
account can write to the directory (or create it, if it doesn't
already exist) before starting "initdb", as illustrated here.
3. The previous step should have told you how to start up the
database server. Do so now. The command should look something like
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
This will start the server in the foreground. To put the server in
the background use something like
nohup /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data \
</dev/null >>server.log 2>&1 </dev/null &
To stop a server running in the background you can type
kill `cat /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`
In order to allow TCP/IP connections (rather than only Unix domain
socket ones) you need to pass the "-i" option to "postmaster".
4. Create a database:
createdb testdb
Then enter
psql testdb
to connect to that database. At the prompt you can enter SQL
commands and start experimenting.
_________________________________________________________________
What Now?
* The PostgreSQL distribution contains a comprehensive documentation
set, which you should read sometime. After installation, the
documentation can be accessed by pointing your browser to
"/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/index.html", unless you changed the
installation directories.
The first few chapters of the main documentation are the Tutorial,
which should be your first reading if you are completely new to
SQL databases. If you are familiar with database concepts then you
want to proceed with part on server administration, which contains
information about how to set up the database server, database
users, and authentication.
* Usually, you will want to modify your computer so that it will
automatically start the database server whenever it boots. Some
suggestions for this are in the documentation.
* Run the regression tests against the installed server (using the
sequential test method). If you didn't run the tests before
installation, you should definitely do it now. This is also
explained in the documentation.
_________________________________________________________________
Supported Platforms
PostgreSQL has been verified by the developer community to work on the
platforms listed below. A supported platform generally means that
PostgreSQL builds and installs according to these instructions and
that the regression tests pass.
Note: If you are having problems with the installation on a
supported platform, please write to <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> or
<pgsql-ports@postgresql.org>, not to the people listed here.
OS Processor Version Reported Remarks
AIX RS6000 7.3 2002-11-12, Andreas Zeugswetter
(<ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>) see also doc/FAQ_AIX
BSD/OS x86 7.3 2002-10-25, Bruce Momjian (<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
4.2
FreeBSD Alpha 7.3 2002-11-13, Chris Kings-Lynne
(<chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
FreeBSD x86 7.3 2002-10-29, 3.3, Nigel J. Andrews
(<nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>), 4.7, Larry Rosenman
(<ler@lerctr.org>), 5.0, Sean Chittenden (<sean@chittenden.org>)
HP-UX PA-RISC 7.3 2002-10-28, 10.20 Tom Lane (<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>),
11.00, 11.11, 32 and 64 bit, Giles Lean (<giles@nemeton.com.au>) gcc
and cc; see also doc/FAQ_HPUX
IRIX MIPS 7.3 2002-10-27, Ian Barwick (<barwick@gmx.net>) Irix64 Komma
6.5
Linux Alpha 7.3 2002-10-28, Magnus Naeslund (<mag@fbab.net>)
2.4.19-pre6
Linux armv4l 7.2 2001-12-10, Mark Knox (<segfault@hardline.org>) 2.2.x
Linux MIPS 7.2 2001-11-15, Hisao Shibuya (<shibuya@alpha.or.jp>)
2.0.x; Cobalt Qube2
Linux PlayStation 2 7.3 2002-11-19, Permaine Cheung
<pcheung@redhat.com>) #undef HAS_TEST_AND_SET, remove slock_t typedef
Linux PPC74xx 7.3 2002-10-26, Tom Lane (<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>) bye
2.2.18; Apple G3
Linux S/390 7.3 2002-11-22, Permaine Cheung <pcheung@redhat.com>) both
s390 and s390x (32 and 64 bit)
Linux Sparc 7.3 2002-10-26, Doug McNaught (<doug@mcnaught.org>) 3.0
Linux x86 7.3 2002-10-26, Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
2.4
MacOS X PPC 7.3 2002-10-28, 10.1, Tom Lane (<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>),
10.2.1, Adam Witney (<awitney@sghms.ac.uk>)
NetBSD Alpha 7.2 2001-11-20, Thomas Thai (<tom@minnesota.com>) 1.5W
NetBSD arm32 7.3 2002-11-19, Patrick Welche (<prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>)
1.6
NetBSD m68k 7.0 2000-04-10, Henry B. Hotz (<hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>) Mac
8xx
NetBSD MIPS 7.2.1 2002-06-13, Warwick Hunter (<whunter@agile.tv>)
1.5.3
NetBSD PPC 7.2 2001-11-28, Bill Studenmund (<wrstuden@netbsd.org>) 1.5
NetBSD Sparc 7.2 2001-12-03, Matthew Green (<mrg@eterna.com.au>) 32-
and 64-bit builds
NetBSD VAX 7.1 2001-03-30, Tom I. Helbekkmo (<tih@kpnQwest.no>) 1.5
NetBSD x86 7.3 2002-11-14, Patrick Welche (<prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>) 1.6
OpenBSD Sparc 7.3 2002-11-17, Christopher Kings-Lynne
(<chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>) 3.2
OpenBSD x86 7.3 2002-11-14, 3.1 Magnus Naeslund (<mag@fbab.net>), 3.2
Christopher Kings-Lynne (<chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
SCO OpenServer 5 x86 7.3.1 2002-12-11, Shibashish Satpathy
(<shib@postmark.net>) 5.0.4, gcc; see also doc/FAQ_SCO
Solaris Sparc 7.3 2002-10-28, Andrew Sullivan
(<andrew@libertyrms.info>) Solaris 7 and 8; see also doc/FAQ_Solaris
Solaris x86 7.3 2002-11-20, Martin Renters (<martin@datafax.com>) 5.8;
see also doc/FAQ_Solaris
SunOS 4 Sparc 7.2 2001-12-04, Tatsuo Ishii (<t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
Tru64 UNIX Alpha 7.3 2002-11-05, Alessio Bragadini
(<alessio@albourne.com>)
UnixWare x86 7.3 2002-11-01, 7.1.3 Larry Rosenman (<ler@lerctr.org>),
7.1.1 and 7.1.2(8.0.0) Olivier Prenant (<ohp@pyrenet.fr>) see also
doc/FAQ_SCO
Windows x86 7.3 2002-10-29, Dave Page (<dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>),
Jason Tishler (<jason@tishler.net>) with Cygwin; see doc/FAQ_MSWIN
Windows x86 7.3 2002-11-05, Dave Page (<dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
native is client-side only; see documentation
Unsupported Platforms: The following platforms are either known not to
work, or they used to work in a previous release and we did not
receive explicit confirmation of a successful test with version 7.4 at
the time this list was compiled. We include these here to let you know
that these platforms *could* be supported if given some attention.
OS Processor Version Reported Remarks
BeOS x86 7.2 2001-11-29, Cyril Velter (<cyril.velter@libertysurf.fr>)
needs updates to semaphore code
DG/UX 5.4R4.11 m88k 6.3 1998-03-01, Brian E Gallew (<geek+@cmu.edu>)
no recent reports
MkLinux DR1 PPC750 7.0 2001-04-03, Tatsuo Ishii (<t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
7.1 needs OS update?
NeXTSTEP x86 6.x 1998-03-01, David Wetzel (<dave@turbocat.de>) bit rot
suspected
QNX 4 RTOS x86 7.2 2001-12-10, Bernd Tegge (<tegge@repas-aeg.de>)
needs updates to semaphore code; see also doc/FAQ_QNX4
QNX RTOS v6 x86 7.2 2001-11-20, Igor Kovalenko
(<Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com>) patches available in archives, but too
late for 7.2
System V R4 m88k 6.2.1 1998-03-01, Doug Winterburn
(<dlw@seavme.xroads.com>) needs new TAS spinlock code
System V R4 MIPS 6.4 1998-10-28, Frank Ridderbusch
(<ridderbusch.pad@sni.de>) no recent reports
Ultrix MIPS 7.1 2001-03-26 TAS spinlock code not detected
Ultrix VAX 6.x 1998-03-01
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