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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ POSTGRESQL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS Copyright (c) 1997 Regents of the University of California This is file /usr/src/pgsql/INSTALL. It contains notes on how to install -PostgreSQL v6.3. Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at +PostgreSQL v6.3.1. Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at http://www.postgresql.org. PostgreSQL is an RDBMS database server. It is not completely ANSI SQL @@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ You should have at least 8 MB of memory and at least 45 MB of disk space to hold the source, binaries, and user databases. After installation you may reduce this to about 3 Mbytes plus space for user databases. +To those upgrading from PostgreSQL 6.3: +--------------------------------------- + +A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3. A +'make distclean', 'make', and 'make install' is all that is required. +This last step should be performed while the postmaster is not running. +You should re-link any custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries. + + To those doing a fresh install or upgrading from previous releases of PostgreSQL: ---------------------------------------------- @@ -110,7 +119,7 @@ PostgreSQL: To check for disk space, use command "df -k". - 4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz from the + 4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.3.1.tar.gz from the Internet. Store it in your home directory. 5) Some platforms use flex. If your system uses flex then make sure @@ -152,7 +161,7 @@ PostgreSQL: step. Type (with the gunzip line and the following line typed as one line): cd - gunzip -c postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz | + gunzip -c postgresql-v6.3.1.tar.gz | tar xvf - src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall chmod a+x src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall > db.out @@ -217,7 +226,7 @@ PostgreSQL: 10) Unzip and untar the new source file. Type cd /usr/src/pgsql - gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz | tar xvf - + gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.3.1.tar.gz | tar xvf - 11) Configure the source code for your system. It is this step at which you can specify your actual source path and installation paths for @@ -414,7 +423,7 @@ PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL. For a i686/Linux-ELF platform, no tests failed since this is the - v6.3 regression testing reference platform. + v6.3.1 regression testing reference platform. For the SPARC/Linux-ELF platform, using the 970525 beta version of PostgreSQL v6.2 the following tests "failed": @@ -507,7 +516,7 @@ PostgreSQL: e-mail us a copy of your shell script. We would like to set up our own systems to do this too.) - 23) If you are upgrading an existing system then install your old database. + 23) If you are upgrading an existing system then reload your old database. Type cd psql -e template1 < db.out @@ -534,7 +543,7 @@ PostgreSQL: rm -rf /usr/local/pgsql_6_0 # Also delete old database directory tree if it is not in # /usr/local/pgsql_6_0/data - rm ~/postgresql-v6.3.tar.gz + rm ~/postgresql-v6.3.1.tar.gz 26) You will probably want to print out the documentation. Here is how you might do it if you have Ghostscript on your system and are @@ -561,7 +570,7 @@ PostgreSQL: supported platforms. We therefore ask you to let us know if you did or did not get PostgreSQL to work on you system. Please send a mail message to pgsql-ports@postgresql.org telling us the following: - - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.3, 6.2.1, beta 970703, etc.). + - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.3.1, 6.2.1, beta 970703, etc.). - Your operating system (i.e. RedHat v4.0 Linux v2.0.26). - Your hardware (SPARC, i486, etc.). - Did you compile, install and run the regression tests cleanly? |