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Dear sir,
I need to install postgresql in unix solaris, can you please help with the config file set up and more detail set up instructions.
thanks
Sue
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I need to install postgresql in unix solaris, can you please help with the config file set up and more detail set up instructions.
thanks
Sue
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On 02/01/2010 19:35, Shu Ho wrote: > Dear sir, > I need to install postgresql in unix solaris, can you please help with > the config file set up and more detail set up instructions. The first place to start is with the documentation - there are very detailed instructions on installation and the configuration options. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/installation.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/runtime-config.html Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@iol.ie
On Saturday 02 January 2010 11:35:42 am Shu Ho wrote: > Dear sir, > > I need to install postgresql in unix solaris, can you please help with the > config file set up and more detail set up instructions. > > > > thanks > > Sue > > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ Good places to start: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/installation-platform-notes.html#INSTALLATION-NOTES-SOLARIS http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Detailed_installation_guides#Solaris -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@comcast.net
Shu Ho wrote: > Dear sir, > I need to install postgresql in unix solaris, can you please help with > the config file set up and more detail set up instructions. Solaris 10 comes with several versions of PostgreSQL. if you have a reasonably recent release of sol10, you should have 8.3.x, and you need merely... # cat /etc/release Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 27 October 2008 # svcadm enable svc:/application/database/postgresql_83:default_64bit to start it (this also autostarts it on future reboots). initdb is run automatically on the first start, this can take a minute or so, use # svcs -xv to check on the status (if its listed as disabled or maintenance, then you need to debug why it didn't start) The configuration files and database files are created by default in /var/postgres/8.3/data_64 if you wish to put it somewhere else, before starting it for the first time, use... # svccfg -s svc:/application/database/postgresql_83:default_64bit setprop postgresql_83/data /path/to/new/data (making sure this path is owned by and writable by user postgres (90:90) to re-load the config files, use... # svcadm refresh svc:/application/database/postgresql_83:default_64bit to restart it (stop/start), use... # svcadm restart svc:/application/database/postgresql_83:default_64bit Put /usr/postgres/8.3/bin/64/ first in the path of any user who is going to run postgres software via ~/.profile. link your postgres client programs with /usr/postgres/8.3/lib/64/libpq.so