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| author | Bruce Momjian | 1997-09-14 02:09:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 1997-09-14 02:09:10 +0000 |
| commit | 973a03744c0368ce163e42797faf6456fe199f47 (patch) | |
| tree | 40a740c6a245f42e590519c334b70b90d2bd3163 /INSTALL | |
| parent | ba0b03de2e8ef517010f77709eac6de20371d0f3 (diff) | |
Update README, HISTORY, etc for beta release.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 29 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 19 deletions
@@ -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? |
