Installation of PostgreSQL

  • Standard ./configure && make && make install
  • Important arguments to --configure
    • --prefix; eg: --prefix=/var/pgsql
    • --enable-nls; eg: --enable-nls='fr de'
    • --with-pgport; eg: --with-pgport=5433
    • --with-openssl; eg: --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl

  • make check for uncommon hardware/software configurations
    • See http://www.postgresql.org for regressions test results on your platform
Prev

Next

Page 4