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authorBruce Momjian1997-09-14 02:09:10 +0000
committerBruce Momjian1997-09-14 02:09:10 +0000
commit973a03744c0368ce163e42797faf6456fe199f47 (patch)
tree40a740c6a245f42e590519c334b70b90d2bd3163 /INSTALL
parentba0b03de2e8ef517010f77709eac6de20371d0f3 (diff)
Update README, HISTORY, etc for beta release.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 6a362e24ea8..dfaf05a3698 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -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 v6.1.1. Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at
+PostgreSQL v6.2. 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
@@ -69,17 +69,8 @@ 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 upgrade from PostgreSQL v6.1 to v6.1.1 do the following:
------------------------------------------------------------
- 1) Run configure on the new release
- 2) Compile the new release
- 3) Recompile your custom applications to use the new libpq library
- 4) Stop the postmaster
- 5) Install the new release
- 6) Restart the postmaster
-
-To those doing a fresh install or upgrading to PostgreSQL v6.1.1
-from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
+To those doing a fresh install or upgrading from previous releases of
+PostgreSQL:
----------------------------------------------
1) Read any last minute information and platform specific porting
@@ -120,7 +111,7 @@ from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
To check for disk space, use command "df -k".
- 4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.1.1.tar.gz from the
+ 4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.2.tar.gz from the
internet. Store it in your home directory.
5) Some platforms use flex. If your system uses flex then make sure
@@ -162,7 +153,7 @@ from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
postgres super user. Type (with the gunzip line and the following
line typed as one line):
cd
- gunzip -c postgresql-v6.1.1.tar.gz |
+ gunzip -c postgresql-v6.2.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
@@ -227,7 +218,7 @@ from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
10) Unzip and untar the new source file. Type
cd /usr/src/pgsql
- gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.1.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
+ gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.2.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
@@ -419,10 +410,10 @@ from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
Here is an example from a i686/Linux-ELF platform (this is the platform
on which most of the regression tests were generated). No tests failed
- since this is the v6.1.1 regression reference platform.
+ since this is the v6.2 regression reference platform.
Here is an example from the SPARC/Linux-ELF platform. Using the
- 970525 beta version of PostgreSQL v6.1.1 the following tests "failed".
+ 970525 beta version of PostgreSQL v6.2 the following tests "failed".
float8 and geometry "failed" due to minor precision differences in
floating point numbers. select_views produces massively different output,
but the differences are due to minor floating point differences.
@@ -547,7 +538,7 @@ from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
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-v6.1.1.tar.gz
+ rm ~/postgresql-v6.2.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
@@ -574,7 +565,7 @@ from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
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 (v6.1, 6.1.1, beta 970703, etc.).
+ - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.2, 6.1.1, 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?