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Copyright (c) 1997 Regents of the University of California
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This is file /usr/src/pgsql/INSTALL. It contains notes on how to install
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- PostgreSQL v6.3. Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at
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+ PostgreSQL v6.3.1. Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at
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http://www.postgresql.org.
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PostgreSQL is an RDBMS database server. It is not completely ANSI SQL
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to hold the source, binaries, and user databases. After installation
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you may reduce this to about 3 Mbytes plus space for user databases.
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+ To those upgrading from PostgreSQL 6.3:
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+ A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3. A
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+ 'make distclean', 'make', and 'make install' is all that is required.
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+ This last step should be performed while the postmaster is not running.
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+ You should re-link any custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries.
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To those doing a fresh install or upgrading from previous releases of
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PostgreSQL:
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To check for disk space, use command "df -k".
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- 4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz from the
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+ 4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.3.1. tar.gz from the
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Internet. Store it in your home directory.
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5) Some platforms use flex. If your system uses flex then make sure
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step. Type (with the gunzip line and the following line typed as one
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line):
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cd
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- gunzip -c postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz |
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+ gunzip -c postgresql-v6.3.1. tar.gz |
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tar xvf - src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall
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chmod a+x src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall
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src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall > db.out
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10) Unzip and untar the new source file. Type
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cd /usr/src/pgsql
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- gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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+ gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.3.1. tar.gz | tar xvf -
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11) Configure the source code for your system. It is this step at which
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you can specify your actual source path and installation paths for
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PostgreSQL.
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For a i686/Linux-ELF platform, no tests failed since this is the
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- v6.3 regression testing reference platform.
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+ v6.3.1 regression testing reference platform.
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For the SPARC/Linux-ELF platform, using the 970525 beta version of
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PostgreSQL v6.2 the following tests "failed":
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e-mail us a copy of your shell script. We would like to set up
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our own systems to do this too.)
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- 23) If you are upgrading an existing system then install your old database.
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+ 23) If you are upgrading an existing system then reload your old database.
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Type
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cd
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psql -e template1 < db.out
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rm -rf /usr/local/pgsql_6_0
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# Also delete old database directory tree if it is not in
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# /usr/local/pgsql_6_0/data
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- rm ~/postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz
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+ rm ~/postgresql-v6.3.1. tar.gz
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26) You will probably want to print out the documentation. Here is how
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you might do it if you have Ghostscript on your system and are
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supported platforms. We therefore ask you to let us know if you did
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or did not get PostgreSQL to work on you system. Please send a
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mail message to
[email protected] telling us the following:
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- - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.3, 6.2.1, beta 970703, etc.).
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+ - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.3.1 , 6.2.1, beta 970703, etc.).
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- Your operating system (i.e. RedHat v4.0 Linux v2.0.26).
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- Your hardware (SPARC, i486, etc.).
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- Did you compile, install and run the regression tests cleanly?
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