Hi Sven
Thanks for the info. This is a great help.
One question:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:23 +0200, postgresql@bryden.co.za wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am very new to FreeBSD (Windows Background), but am busy trying to
>> implement a PostgreSQL database that I have running in the Windows
>> environemtn on FreeBSD. Naturally, most of my problems so far have been
>> geeting to grips with FreeBSD.
>>
>> Anyway, I am having a problem at the moment. Having being previously
>> spoilt with the ease of installation on windows, I am sure that I have
>> missed the boat on something.
>
> Freebsd ports is an amazingly easy way to install software.
>
>
>> I downloaded the latest port for PostgreSQL-8.0.4 from postgresql.org.
>
> the postgresq website does not have Freebsd ports ... just source code
> from what I can see.
>
>> I
>> followed the instructions in the documentation and all seemed to work. I
>> have successfully created "test" databases and have happily managed to
>> connect to the new PostgreSQL server using psql and pgAdmin III(on
>> windows). I have now backed up my DB from windows and have created a new
>> database on the BSD server. When restoring this DB I got a lot of errors
>> related to some of the system installed functions. I then realised that
>> the PostgreSQL installation on FreeBSD did not install any of the
>> contrib
>> modules. I went to the /contrib folder in the port I used to to install
>> postgreSQL (/usr/ports/database/postgresql-8.0.4/contrib). I excluded
>> /cube and /mysql from the MakeFile (cube seemed to be failing and why
>> would I want mysql stuff on PostgreSQL?). I then did a gmake install.
>> All
>> contribs seemed to install fine. I reran the restore on a clean DB and
>> most of the errors went away, but I am still getting errors all related
>> to
>> system functions looking for '$libdir/admin'.
>>
>> Does anyone know what I could have missed here?
>
> It looks like you built from source rather that using the FreeBSD ports
> system. Assuming you have a fresh FreeBSD install one would do the
> following to achieve your desired end goal.
>
> 1) cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql80-server
> 2) make && make install
> 3) pay attention to the notes at the end about tuning your kernel for
> shared memory usage (if you plan on having lots of connections)
> 4) cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql-contrib
> 5) make && make install
> 6) /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh initdb
> 7) /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start
>
> Now if your ports tree is out of date (or even if not) you may want to
> do the following instead:
>
> 1) pkg_add -r postgresql80-server
> 2) pkg_add -r postgresql-contrib
>
> Then continue with steps 6 and 7 above. You can verify the package
> installation via pkg_info. Also, you may need to build (via ports) or
> add (via pkg_add) postgresql80-client.
>
> HTH
>
> Sven
>
>
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