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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 92 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 6 | ||||
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/Makefile.global | 22 |
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ POSTGRESQL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS Copyright (c) 1996 Regents of the University of California This directory contains the source and documentation for PostgreSQL -(version 1.09) PostgreSQL is a derivative of POSTGRES 4.2 (the last +(version 6.0) PostgreSQL is a derivative of POSTGRES 4.2 (the last release of the UC Berkeley research project). For copyright terms for PostgreSQL, please see the file named COPYRIGHT. This version was developed by a team of developers on the postgres developers mailing @@ -15,23 +15,21 @@ REQUIREMENTS TO RUN POSTGRESQL PostgreSQL has been tested on the following platforms: - alpha - DEC Alpha AXP on OSF/1 2.0 - hpux - HP PA-RISC on HP-UX 9.0 - i386_solaris - i386 Solaris - sparc_solaris - SUN SPARC on Solaris 2.4 - sparc - SUN SPARC on SunOS 4.1.3 - ultrix4 - DEC MIPS on Ultrix 4.4 - linux - Intel x86 on Linux 1.2 (or above) ELF or a.out - BSD44_derived - OSs derived from 4.4-lite BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD) - bsdi - BSD/OS 2.0 and 2.01 - bsdi_2_1 - BSD/OS 2.1 - aix - IBM on AIX 3.2.5 - irix5 - SGI MIPS on IRIX 5.3 - dgux - DG/UX 5.4R3.10 - Some hooks are provided for - svr4 - Intel x86 on Intel SVR4 - next - Motorola MC68K or Intel x86 on NeXTSTEP 3.2 - but these are guaranteed not to work as of yet. + aix IBM on AIX 3.2.5 + alpha DEC Alpha AXP on OSF/1 2.0 + BSD44_derived OSs derived from 4.4-lite BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD) + bsdi BSD/OS 2.0, 2.01, 2.1 + dgux DG/UX 5.4R3.10 + hpux HP PA-RISC on HP-UX 9.0 + i386_solaris i386 Solaris + irix5 SGI MIPS on IRIX 5.3 + linux Intel x86 on Linux 1.2 and Linux ELF + (For non-ELF Linux, see LINUX_ELF below). + next Motorola MC68K or Intel x86 on NeXTSTEP 3.2 + sparc_solaris SUN SPARC on Solaris 2.4 + sunos4 SUN SPARC on SunOS 4.1.3 + svr4 Intel x86 on Intel SVR4 + ultrix4 DEC MIPS on Ultrix 4.4 PostgreSQL is also known to work on a number of other platforms that the authors have not personally tested. @@ -40,18 +38,13 @@ You should have at least 8 MB of memory and at least 30 MB of disk space to hold the source, binaries, and user databases. -MIGRATING FROM POSTGRES VERSION 1.0 +MIGRATING FROM POSTGRES VERSION 1.* ----------------------------------- -Version 1.01 and 1.02 (and above) are mostly backward compatible with Version -1.0, but the database format is incompatible, so if you have databases that -you use with Version 1, you need to convert them before you can use them with -Version 1.02. Once you do that, you won't be able to use them with Version 1 -anymore. - -For details on how to do this conversion, see the files doc/MIGRATION_1.0_to_1.01 -and MIGRATION_to_1.02.1 - +People migrating data from earlier releases must dump the data under +1.09 and reload them under 6.0. The pg_dump utility is designed to do +this. It is important you use 1.09 because earlier releases may not +have the proper copy format to load into the 6.0 database. INSTALLING POSTGRESQL --------------------- @@ -64,11 +57,11 @@ system to use it. To install PostgreSQL on UNIX platforms: 1. Unpack the source distribution into a source directory. We'll assume - "/usr/src/postgres95" in this discussion. This should be a new directory. + "/usr/src/pgsql" in this discussion. This should be a new directory. 2. Set your current directory to the source directory: - cd /usr/src/postgres95 + cd /usr/src/pgsql 3. Build PostgreSQL: @@ -102,12 +95,6 @@ To install PostgreSQL on UNIX platforms: - POSTGRESDIR specifies the top-level directory where PostgreSQL binaries, header files, libraries, and databases are installed. - - NAMEDATALEN and OIDNAMELEN allows you to set the maximum length of - system identifiers (table names, function names, etc.) It - defaults to 32. You may alter this if you like, but be aware that - databases created with different NAMEDATALEN's do not - interoperate. - - USE_READLINE specifies whether you want to use the GNU readline and history libraries for the psql interactive frontend program. GNU readline is not supplied with PostgreSQL and can be found in the @@ -123,7 +110,7 @@ To install PostgreSQL on UNIX platforms: % cd src % gmake - The gmake ultimately issues the message "All of Postgres95 is + The gmake ultimately issues the message "All of PostgreSQL is successfully made. Ready to install." If you don't get that, the make failed, and there should be error messages at the end detailing why. @@ -164,7 +151,7 @@ The program initdb (part of Postgres) is what initializes (creates) a database system. Initdb uses the defaults specified in Makefile.global. See the man page for initdb for more information. - % initdb + % initdb --pgdata=/usr/local/pgsql/data --pglib=/usr/local/pgsql/lib By default, the user issuing the initdb command becomes the Postgres superuser, and only the unix superuser can specify any other user as the @@ -189,12 +176,10 @@ Postgres superuser. See the postgres man page. So, for example, you can login as the Postgres superuser and issue the command: - % postmaster -S -D/usr/lib/postgres/postgres_data -p5432 + $ nohup postmaster -D/usr/local/pgsql/data >server.log 2>&1 & -This says to run the postmaster against the database system created above, -to accept connections from users on the conventional TCP port 5432, and -(-S) to run in the background without issuing messages about normal -execution. +This says to run the postmaster against the database system created +above. This is a good daemon to start via system startup scripts, using su (be careful NOT to run the postmaster as the unix superuser by mistake). @@ -208,20 +193,16 @@ installed successfully and works as designed in your environment. The regression tests can be found in src/test/regress. (see src/test/regress/README for more details) - % cd /usr/src/postgres95/src/test/regress + % cd /usr/src/pgsql/test/regress % gmake all runtest -This will run a whole slew of regression tests and might take a long time +This will run a whole slew of regression tests and might take an hour to run. When it's done, the output is in the file obj/regress.out. You can compare this to a sample run that we supply in the file sample.regress.out. (You should get roughly the same output except for some pathnames.) - % diff obj/regress.out sample.regress.out - -The regression test takes about half an hour to run on a Sparc 10. You -may want to use 'grep -v' to remove unsignificant differences. - + % diff expected.out regress.out PLAYING WITH POSTGRESQL ----------------------- @@ -231,15 +212,12 @@ daemon is running, and the regression tests have passed, you'll want to see PostgreSQL do something. That's easy. Invoke the interactive interface to PostgreSQL, psql, and start typing SQL: - % psql -p 5432 template1 + $ psql template1 (psql has to open a particular database, but at this point the only one that exists is the template1 database, which always exists. We will connect to it only long enough to create another one and switch to it). -Note that we have told psql to connect to Port 5432, which is what we told -the postmaster to listen on when we started it above. - The response from psql is: type \? for help on slash commands @@ -280,11 +258,11 @@ QUESTIONS? BUGS? FEEDBACK? First, please read the Frequently Asked Questions and answers in the file called FAQ. -If you still have questions, please send them to -postgres95@postgres95.vnet.net. +If you still have questions, please send them to: +questions@postgreSQL.org If you have a bug report to make, please send a filled out version of -the file named "bug.template" to pg95-dev@ki.net. +the file named "bug.template" to hackers@postgreSQL.org. If you would like to help out with the development and maintenance of PostgreSQL, send subscribe to the developers mailing list. See @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ POSTGRES95 Data Base Management System -This directory contains the 2.0 release of Postgres95. See INSTALL for +This directory contains the 6.0 release of PostgreSQL. See INSTALL for the installation notes and HISTORY for the changes. We also have a WWW home page located at: - http://www.ki.net/postgres95 + http://www.postgreSQL.org -Postgres95 is not public domain software. It is copyrighted by the +PostgreSQL is not public domain software. It is copyrighted by the University of California but may be used according to the licensing terms of the the copyright below: diff --git a/doc/bug.template b/doc/bug.template index 6c78804acf5..72ef1d3f7f6 100644 --- a/doc/bug.template +++ b/doc/bug.template @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ To report a bug, please complete the following form and send it by -email to pg95-dev@ki.net +email to hackers@postgreSQL.org. ============================================================================ POSTGRES95 BUG REPORT TEMPLATE @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ System Configuration Operating System (example: Linux 1.3.42 ELF) : - Postgres95 version (example: Postgres95-1.01) : Postgres95-1.02 + PostgreSQL version (example: Postgres95-1.01) : PostgreSQL-6.0 Compiler used (example: gcc 2.7.0) : diff --git a/src/Makefile.global b/src/Makefile.global index be16098e6e2..64c4e7b884c 100644 --- a/src/Makefile.global +++ b/src/Makefile.global @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ # # # IDENTIFICATION -# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Attic/Makefile.global,v 1.80 1996/12/30 23:19:23 bryanh Exp $ +# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Attic/Makefile.global,v 1.81 1997/01/03 06:07:18 momjian Exp $ # # NOTES # Essentially all Postgres make files include this file and use the @@ -45,23 +45,21 @@ # of the port. # The name of the port. Valid choices are: +# aix IBM on AIX 3.2.5 # alpha DEC Alpha AXP on OSF/1 2.0 +# BSD44_derived OSs derived from 4.4-lite BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD) +# bsdi BSD/OS 2.0, 2.01, 2.1 +# dgux DG/UX 5.4R3.10 # hpux HP PA-RISC on HP-UX 9.0 # i386_solaris i386 Solaris -# sparc_solaris SUN SPARC on Solaris 2.4 -# sunos4 SUN SPARC on SunOS 4.1.3 -# ultrix4 DEC MIPS on Ultrix 4.4 +# irix5 SGI MIPS on IRIX 5.3 # linux Intel x86 on Linux 1.2 and Linux ELF # (For non-ELF Linux, see LINUX_ELF below). -# BSD44_derived OSs derived from 4.4-lite BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD) -# bsdi BSD/OS 2.0, 2.01, 2.1 -# aix IBM on AIX 3.2.5 -# irix5 SGI MIPS on IRIX 5.3 -# dgux DG/UX 5.4R3.10 -# Some hooks are provided for -# svr4 Intel x86 on Intel SVR4 # next Motorola MC68K or Intel x86 on NeXTSTEP 3.2 -# but these are guaranteed not to work as of yet. +# sparc_solaris SUN SPARC on Solaris 2.4 +# sunos4 SUN SPARC on SunOS 4.1.3 +# svr4 Intel x86 on Intel SVR4 +# ultrix4 DEC MIPS on Ultrix 4.4 # # Note that portname is defined here to be UNDEFINED to remind you # to change it in Makefile.custom. |