PostgreSQL v6.1. Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at
http://www.postgresql.org.
-PostgreSQL is a database server. It is not completely ANSI SQL
+PostgreSQL is an RDBMS database server. It is not completely ANSI SQL
compliant, but with each release it gets closer.
PostgreSQL, formerly called Postgres95, is a derivative of Postgres 4.2
i386_solaris i386 Solaris
irix5 SGI MIPS on IRIX 5.3
linux Intel x86 on Linux 2.0 and Linux ELF
+ SPARC on Linux ELF
(For non-ELF Linux, see LINUX_ELF below).
sparc_solaris SUN SPARC on Solaris 2.4
sunos4 SUN SPARC on SunOS 4.1.3
3) Log into account postgres.
4) Ftp file ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.1.tar.gz from the
- internet.
+ internet. Store it in your home directory.
5) Some platforms use flex. If your system uses flex then make sure
you have a good version. Type
/usr/bin/flex++ which points to flex.
6) If you are upgrading an existing system from any version before
- version 6.1 beta release 970512 then back up the current
- database. Type
+ version 6.1 beta release 970525 then back up the current
+ database. (If you don't mind the restored tables being owned by
+ the postgres account then you may use your current pg_dumpall
+ script instead of the new pg_dumpall script used below.) Type
+ (with the gunzip line and the following line typed as one line):
cd
- pg_dumpall > db.out
- If you wish to preserve object id's (oids), type
- cd
- pg_dumpall -o > db.out
- instead. However, unless you have a special reason for doing this,
- don't do it.
+ gunzip -c postgresql-v6.1.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
+ rm -rf src
+ If you wish to preserve object id's (oids), then use the -o
+ option when running pg_dumpall. However, unless you have a
+ special reason for doing this, don't do it.
Please note that if you are upgrading from a version prior to
Postgres95 v1.09 then you must back up your database, install
in error handling for those math functions between this platform
and the original Sun (?) Postgres v4.2 development environment.
- Here is an example from a SPARC/Linux-ELF platform (note that this is
- for an "unsupported" platform). Using the 970516 beta version of
- PostgreSQL v6.1 the following tests "failed". float8 and geometry
- "failed" due to minor precision differences in floating point numbers.
- timespan and horology had different values from the expected
- "14 secs ago". datetime, abstime and tinterval had "GMT" for the time
- zone rather than "PST" or "PDT". These differences were due to a
- mis-typed string for the TZ environment variable from step (18).
- select_views failed for unknown reasons.
+ Here is an example from the SPARC/Linux-ELF platform. Using the
+ 970525 beta version of PostgreSQL v6.1 the following tests "failed".
+ float8 and geometry "failed" due to minor precision differences in
+ floating point numbers. float8 also "failed" due to a table being
+ printed out in place of the expected warning message of a floating
+ point number being out of range. timespan and horology fail
+ because of a bug on this platform that causes a timespan of
+ "14 secs ago" to be returned as "1 day 23 hours 59 mins 46 secs
+ ago". (If you don't intend to use the timespan data type, then
+ this will not be a problem for you.) datetime also fails due
+ to similar problems with the timespan data type. errors fail
+ due to a parsing error. (This bug was introduced within the
+ previous week, and is probably in the regression test itself.)
+ select_views produces massively different output, but the
+ differences are probably due to the same reasons the other tests
+ failed.
Conclusion? If you do see failures, try to understand the nature of
the differences and then decide if those differences will affect your
(Jalon Q. Zimmerman
<sneaker@powergrid.electriciti.com> 5/11/95)
- To compile with flex, you need a recent version (v2.5.2 or v2.5.4 or
- later). Otherwise, you will get a 'yy_flush_buffer' undefined error.
- Note, however, that flex v2.5.3 has a bug. See the FAQs.
-
BSD/OS:
- For BSD/OS 2.0 and 2.01, you will need to get flex version 2.5.2 or
- flex version 2.5.4 as well as the GNU dld library.
- Flex version 2.5.3 has a known bug on all platforms.
+ For BSD/OS 2.0 and 2.01, you will need to get the GNU dld library.
NeXT:
The NeXT port was supplied by Tom R. Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl>.
binary releases of PostgreSQL for NEXTSTEP will be made available to
the general public. Contact Info@RnA.nl for information.
-SPARC Linux-elf:
- There was not time to finish adding support for this in the v6.1
- release. However, if you are running RedHat Linux v4.0 on a
- SPARC platform then install flex v2.5.4 and tell configure you
- have a "linux-elf" platform. After running "configure" and before
- compiling PostgreSQL, make the following changes:
- 1) Edit src/GNUmakefile to comment out the call to lexflex and
- the if-then-else test that follows it. (This may not be
- necessary by the time v6.1 gets released.)
- 2) Edit src/Makefile.global to change "-O2" to "-O".
- 3) Edit src/backend/libpq/pqcomprim.c, near the start to replace
- #ifdef HAVE_ENDIAN_H
- # include <endian.h>
- #endif
- with
- /*
- #ifdef HAVE_ENDIAN_H
- # include <endian.h>
- #endif
- */
- #define BYTE_ORDER LITTLE_ENDIAN
- For more details, look in ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/majordomo/ports
- for a May 16, 1997 mail message called "regression tests on a
- SPARC/Linux platform".
-
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