Re: [ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-15 Thread Steve Crawford
H. Hall wrote: Carol Walter wrote: It been suggested that I download the binary and just go from there. All the documentation I've read says that for Unix installations should compile source. Would using the binary allow me to do the customization my site requires. I want to put the databas

Re: [ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-15 Thread H. Hall
Carol Walter wrote: It been suggested that I download the binary and just go from there. All the documentation I've read says that for Unix installations should compile source. Would using the binary allow me to do the customization my site requires. I want to put the database in it's origi

Re: [ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-15 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 09:44 -0400, Carol Walter wrote: > All the documentation I've read says that for Unix installations > should compile source. You're right. We should fix that so it also describes using pre-packaged options also. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-15 Thread Carol Walter
It been suggested that I download the binary and just go from there. All the documentation I've read says that for Unix installations should compile source. Would using the binary allow me to do the customization my site requires. I want to put the database in it's original location so t

Re: [ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Crawford
Carol Walter wrote: I'm running Solaris 10 I want to do a new installation of postgres. I have version 8.2.3 and I want to go to 8.3.3 There are pre-compiled binaries for Solaris at: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.3.3/solaris/solaris10/ Within the appropriate architecture sub

Re: [ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-14 Thread Carol Walter
I'm running Solaris 10. I'm not sure whether I'd compile source or use package manager. I haven't done enough research to know which one is right for us. I will be migrating my old data into the new version. I don't have any client apps that need testing - yet. In fact, I don't have an

Re: [ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Crawford
Carol Walter wrote: Hello, I want to do a new installation of postgres. I have version 8.2.3 and I want to go to 8.3.3. The postgres documentation says that the default location for the installation is /usr/local/pgsql. My installation has obviously been customized because I have no such p

[ADMIN] New postgres installation

2008-08-14 Thread Carol Walter
Hello, I want to do a new installation of postgres. I have version 8.2.3 and I want to go to 8.3.3. The postgres documentation says that the default location for the installation is /usr/local/pgsql. My installation has obviously been customized because I have no such path on my system