Thread: BUG #15793: Required Community Version Installs not the customized EnterpriseDB one.
BUG #15793: Required Community Version Installs not the customized EnterpriseDB one.
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The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 15793 Logged by: vinod viswanath Email address: vtvkerala@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 9.6.9 Operating system: Windows Description: Why the Postgres provides only windows installer certified by EnterpriseDB?? Is there any way i can get the Community version installer for windows?
Re: BUG #15793: Required Community Version Installs not thecustomized EnterpriseDB one.
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Magnus Hagander
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On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:57 AM PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 15793
Logged by: vinod viswanath
Email address: vtvkerala@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.6.9
Operating system: Windows
Description:
Why the Postgres provides only windows installer certified by EnterpriseDB??
Is there any way i can get the Community version installer for windows?
Hi!
If you go through the download page on www.postgresql.org you will get a PostgreSQL download that is pure PostgreSQL, that is hosted by EnterpriseDB. They only build the installer, but the database server being installed is the normal PostgreSQL.
Re: BUG #15793: Required Community Version Installs not thecustomized EnterpriseDB one.
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Stephen Frost
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Greetings, * PG Bug reporting form (noreply@postgresql.org) wrote: > Why the Postgres provides only windows installer certified by EnterpriseDB?? > Is there any way i can get the Community version installer for windows? Great question. Unfortunately, there isn't actually a "community installer for Windows" currently today. You can download the source code for PostgreSQL and then compile it yourself, instructions for that are available here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-windows.html There are also some other commercial organizations which provide Windows builds of open source PostgreSQL for their clients. Thanks, Stephen
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Re: BUG #15793: Required Community Version Installs not thecustomized EnterpriseDB one.
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Thomas Munro
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On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:44 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote: > * PG Bug reporting form (noreply@postgresql.org) wrote: > > Why the Postgres provides only windows installer certified by EnterpriseDB?? > > Is there any way i can get the Community version installer for windows? > > Great question. Unfortunately, there isn't actually a "community > installer for Windows" currently today. You can download the source > code for PostgreSQL and then compile it yourself, instructions for that > are available here: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-windows.html > > There are also some other commercial organizations which provide Windows > builds of open source PostgreSQL for their clients. I'm not a Windows users and know very little about it, but Chocolatey seems to be a leading package manager and distribution on Windows (for example on cfbot.cputube.org I use it to install bison etc when testing PostgreSQL code for CI, based on clues from Andrew Dunstan). Sure enough, they seem to package PostgreSQL: https://chocolatey.org/packages/postgresql At a guess, I'd say the PostgreSQL community is unlikely to ever provide an official "installer" (meaning stand-alone graphical executable installer), but I suspect that projects like Chocolatey are probably a reasonable way to consume it if (like me) you hate "installers" and you just want the straight PostgreSQL code + minimal packaging to make it deal with minor upgrades in a coherent fashion and share libraries coherently with other packages on your system. That said, I haven't ever tried to use that and have no idea how well it works. -- Thomas Munro https://enterprisedb.com