Comments on: Installing PostgreSQL

By: depesz

depesz — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:08:59 +0000

@Filip:
thx – updated blogpost. can you also check the useradd command?

By: Filip

Filip — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:39:50 +0000

prerequisites on SUSE (SLES 10):

zypper install gcc make readline-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel libxml2-devel tcl-devel python-devel

By: Kuba

Kuba — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:36:05 +0000

@Depesz: Already I don’t use Gentoo, because most simple thinks takes to more time, so I decided to change to binary distributions.

Generally, if you have default Gentoo installation (from latest stage) your environment could be ready to use. You’re able to install PostgreSQL from source.

Anyway, very good article. If you’ve a time, could you please write something about tuning options in config, because I’m not familiar with them, surly like more average users.

Thanks!

By: depesz

depesz — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:25:13 +0000

@ak47 – wouldn’t it install postgres itself using gentoo packages? I wanted something different – I know I can install premade packages, and I am aware that I customize it in gentoo. What I wanted is: list of commands to setup build envoronment, in which I can install PostgreSQL my way.

By: ak47

ak47 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:47:35 +0000

@depesz
simple install
emerge dev-db/postgresql-server -va
install concrete mainline
emerge dev-db/postgresql-server:8.3 -va
install concrete version
emerge =dev-db/postgresql-server-8.3.9 -va

(all dependencies was handled by useflags so you can add or remove it
example add perl support minus python support # USE=”+perl -python” emerge … )

install app-portage/gentoolkit if you want see what useflags mean
emerge app-portage/gentoolkit -va

equery u [postgresql-server|| or any other package]
this is output
* Searching for postgresql-server …
[ Legend : U - flag is set in make.conf ]
[ : I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.2-r1:
U I
– - doc : Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
+ + kernel_linux : KERNEL setting for system using the Linux kernel
– - linguas_af : Afrikaans locale
– - linguas_cs : Czech locale
– - linguas_de : German locale
– - linguas_es : Spanish locale
– - linguas_fa : Persian locale
– - linguas_fr : French locale
– - linguas_hr : Croatian locale
– - linguas_hu : Hungarian locale
– - linguas_it : Italian locale
– - linguas_ko : Korean locale
– - linguas_nb : Norwegian (Bokmal) locale
+ + linguas_pl : Polish locale
– - linguas_pt_BR : Portuguese locale for Brasil
– - linguas_ro : Romanian locale
– - linguas_ru : Russian locale
– - linguas_sk : Slovak locale
– - linguas_sl : Slovenian locale
– - linguas_sv : Swedish locale
– - linguas_tr : Turkish locale
– - linguas_zh_CN : Chinese locale for Peoples Republic of China
– - linguas_zh_TW : Chinese locale for Taiwan
+ + nls : Adds Native Language Support (using gettext – GNU locale utilities)
+ + perl : Adds support/bindings for the Perl language
– - pg_legacytimestamp : Use double precision floating-point numbers instead of 64-bit integers for timestamp storage.
+ + python : Adds support/bindings for the Python language
– - selinux : !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
– - tcl : Adds support the Tcl language
– - uuid : Enable server side UUID generation (via dev-libs/ossp-uuid)
+ + xml : Add support for XML files

now you may want edit some files and init cluster

By: depesz

depesz — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:37:46 +0000

@Yuriy and others gentoo users – I have absolutely 0 experience with gentoo, could you provide command to install all required packages, and command to create user so that we could add this to the blogpost?

By: Yuriy Rusinov

Yuriy Rusinov — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:48:57 +0000

Impressive job. I use Gentoo linux system and it has the same way.

By: sebpa

sebpa — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:24:57 +0000

Great job! Bookmarked.

By: depesz

depesz — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:41:47 +0000

@Tore: interesting – it was auto-installed on my ubuntu. Perhaps it was because I used server version of ubuntu. Anyway – added libperl-dev to blogpost, thanks for info.

By: Tore Busch

Tore Busch — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:49:09 +0000

Great article!
Only want to mention that on my Ubuntu 9.10 system, I had to add the following package so I could compile the plperl support:
apt-get install libperl-dev
After this, the make completed succsessfully.

By: ak47

ak47 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:48:48 +0000

Another way to handle this, is using Gentoo, this is same way. You have sloting, USE flag (–with/–without), upgrades (if you want it ) and this is automatic.
“RPMs for CentOS, Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are available from the PostgreSQL Yum repository.” – better packages, and newer versions of pg.
bonjour – is handle by avahi/zeroconf on linux

By: Brett McBride

Brett McBride — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:14:44 +0000

Thanks Hubert, this was a very interesting read with a few ideas I’ll put to good use. I particularly like the port convention(I’m always confusing them!) and minor version upgrade method.
Bookmarked for future reference, like many of your previous posts.