> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:42:00AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > >>Regarding question 3,
> > >>
> > >> Select one incorrect statement regarding the installation of PostgreSQL.
> > >>
> > >>2 2. At least 60MB of free disk space is required for compilation.
>
> > Number 2 is
> > also confusing because am I compiling ALL of PostgreSQL? I just did a
> > check and it took 63 megs just to unpack it, let alone compile it.
>
> The current source CVS tree (after bison, flex etc) takes 122 MB.
> 143 MB for the compiled tree (object files), and 63 MB for the installed
> tree (after initdb).
>
> 8.0 is smaller AFAICS, but I don't have the compiled tree.
The question is targted for 7.4. postgresql-7.4.8.tar.gz takes 58M to
unpack on my Linux/ext3 box. 80M for compiled tree. So I admit that
above number "60MB" should be a little bit raised.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
