Hello. I compiled and installed PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 2 on OS X 10.4.10 these days, and noticed a minor issue that may lead to some problems, occasionally.
I generally run make check, and that consumes some extra disk space, of course. While versions 8.1 and 8.2 were quite happy with a total of approximately 280-300 MB of free disk space for the build, 8.3 beta 2 consumes *up to 1.6 Gigabyte*. This may not be a problem for professional environments, but I can imagine cases where some single user machines are brought to their knees ;-) (Fortunately not in my case. I'm working with a disk image to build PostgreSQL, but nonetheless it took three trials until I made the image big enough...) Snip from the current INSTALL file: ... If you are going to run the regression tests you will temporarily need up to an extra 90 MB. ... May I suggest to correct this sentence? Thanks for your interest. Joerg Beyer ============================================================ Jörg Beyer PHILIPPS-University Marburg Dept. of Psychology Germany ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate