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Updates for 6.1.1.

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Bruce Momjian
1997-07-13 20:00:14 +00:00
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@ -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. Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at
PostgreSQL v6.1.1. 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
@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ REQUIREMENTS TO RUN POSTGRESQL
PostgreSQL has been tested on the following platforms:
aix IBM on AIX 3.2.5
aix IBM on AIX 3.2.5 or 4.x
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
bsdi BSD/OS 2.0, 2.01, 2.1, 3.0
dgux DG/UX 5.4R3.10
hpux HP PA-RISC on HP-UX 9.0
i386_solaris i386 Solaris
@ -67,8 +67,17 @@ 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 upgrade to PostgreSQL v6.1 do the following:
To those doing a fresh install or upgrading to PostgreSQL v6.1.1
from 6.0 or 1.* release, do the following:
----------------------------------------------
1) Read any last minute information and platform specific porting
@ -109,7 +118,7 @@ To upgrade to PostgreSQL v6.1 do the following:
To check for disk space, use command "df -k".
4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.1.tar.gz from the
4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.1.1.tar.gz from the
internet. Store it in your home directory.
5) Some platforms use flex. If your system uses flex then make sure
@ -151,7 +160,7 @@ To upgrade to PostgreSQL v6.1 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.tar.gz |
gunzip -c postgresql-v6.1.1.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
@ -216,7 +225,7 @@ To upgrade to PostgreSQL v6.1 do the following:
10) Unzip and untar the new source file. Type
cd /usr/src/pgsql
gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
gunzip -c ~/postgresql-v6.1.1.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
@ -408,10 +417,10 @@ To upgrade to PostgreSQL v6.1 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 regression reference platform.
since this is the v6.1.1 regression reference platform.
Here is an example from the SPARC/Linux-ELF platform. Using the
970525 beta version of PostgreSQL v6.1 the following tests "failed".
970525 beta version of PostgreSQL v6.1.1 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.
@ -542,7 +551,7 @@ To upgrade to PostgreSQL v6.1 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.tar.gz
rm ~/postgresql-v6.1.1.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
@ -569,7 +578,7 @@ To upgrade to PostgreSQL v6.1 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, v6.2 beta 970703, etc.).
- The version of PostgreSQL (v6.1, 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?