January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 39m
English
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10 Steps to Installing PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is included on the CD distributed with this book, but you may want to visit the PostgreSQL website to see if there is a newer version available. Many FTP sites make the source files for PostgreSQL available for download; a complete list of FTP mirrors can be found at http://www.postgresql.org.
Once you have connected to a PostgreSQL FTP mirror, you will see the stable releases located within a directory beginning with v followed by a version (such as v7.1.3/). There should also be a symbolic link to the most recent stable release’s directory called latest/.
Within this sub-directory is a list of package files. The complete PostgreSQL installation package is named postgresql-[version].tar.gz and should be the largest file in the list. The following sub-packages are also made available for download, and may be installed in any combination (though at least base is required):
- postgresql-base-[version].tar.gz
The base package contains the bare minimum of source code required to build and run PostgreSQL.
- postgresql-docs-[version].tar.gz
The docs package contains the PostgreSQL documentation in HTML format. Note that the PostgreSQL man pages are automatically installed with the base package.
- postgresql-opt-[version].tar.gz
The opt package contains several optional extensions to PostgreSQL, such as the interfaces for C++ (libpq++), JDBC, ODBC, Perl, Python, and Tcl. It also contains the source required for multibyte support.
- postgresql-test-[version].tar.gz ...
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