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......@@ -3,27 +3,24 @@ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Postgres95
IRIX Specific
TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORMAL FAQ
====================================================
last updated: Fri Oct 11 14:45:00 BST 1996
last updated: Fri Oct 25 18:40:00 BST 1996
current maintainer: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
original author: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
Changes in this version (* = modified, + = new):
+3.1) How do I compile a C program to create a function for extending
Postgres95
Changes in this version (* = modified, + = new, - = removed):
-0.*) Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
*1.3) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
src/Makefile.global?
This file is divided approximately as follows:
0.*) Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
1.*) Installing Postgres95
2.*) Uninstalling Postgres95
3.*) Extending Postgres95
Questions answered:
0.1) What bugs do I need to fix before Postgres95 will compile
under Irix?
1.1) What extra items do I need to install Postgres95 under Irix?
1.2) What changes do I need to make to src/Makefile.global?
1.3) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
......@@ -31,32 +28,6 @@ Questions answered:
1.4) Are there any other changes I should make?
2.1) Why can't I move the executable files?
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Section 0: Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
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0.1) What bugs do I need to fix before Postgres95 will compile
under Irix?
a) Fix the bug in src/Makefile.global:
Change
# Globally pass PORTNAME
CFLAGS+= -DPORTNAME_$(PORTNAME)
CFLAGS += -I ../../backend/port/$(PORTNAME)
to
# Globally pass PORTNAME
CFLAGS+= -DPORTNAME_$(PORTNAME)
CFLAGS += -I../../backend/port/$(PORTNAME)
(i.e. remove the space after the -I)
b) Add the missing prototype to src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.h
After the line
extern int findLastBuiltinOid();
add
extern void setMaxOid(FILE *fout);
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Section 1: Installing Postgres95
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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1.3) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
src/Makefile.global?
These are Sun Solaris specific and shouldn't be in Makefile.global
The compile (including pgtclsh) seems to go OK even though
these don't exist...
This was a problem in 1.08 (they are Sun Solaris specific).
It is fixed in 1.09.
1.4) Are there any other changes I should make?
......@@ -148,8 +118,10 @@ Section 3: Extending Postgres95
cc -I/usr/local/postgres95/include/ -I/usr/local/postgres95/src/backend
-shared -o funcs.so funcs.c
****************************************************************************
Dr. Andrew C.R. Martin, University College London & SciTech Software
EMAIL: martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk Tel:(Work) +44(0)171 419 3890
URL: http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~martin (Home) +44(0)1372 275775
****************************************************************************
doc/FAQ-Linux
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......@@ -3,19 +3,24 @@ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Postgres95
Linux Specific
TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORMAL FAQ
====================================================
last updated: Mon Oct 14 11:00:00 BST 1996
last updated: Mon Oct 28 10:25:00 BST 1996
current maintainer: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
original author: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
Changes in this version (* = modified, + = new):
Changes in this version (* = modified, + = new, - = removed):
-0.*) Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
*1.3) [REDHAT] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
*1.14) [DEBIAN] Where is libtermcap?
*1.4) [SLACKWARE 3.1] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
*1.5) My compile of the backend dies complaining about the include file
dlfcn.h missing
*1.9) Why do I get problems with ld.so?
*1.13) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
src/Makefile.global?
This file is divided approximately as follows:
0.*) Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
1.*) Installing Postgres95
2.*) Compiling accessory programs
3.*) Runtime Problems
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Questions answered:
0.1) What bugs do I need to fix before Postgres95 will compile
under Linux?
1.1) What changes do I need to make to src/Makefile.global
1.2) Why do I get problems with missing libreadline?
1.3) [REDHAT] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
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initdb: could not create template database
initdb: cleaning up.
3.4) Why doesn't createuser work?
3.5) Why do I get an error like:
IpcMemoryCreate: memKey=155356396 , size=760632 ,
permission=384IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(..., create, ...)
failed: Invalid argument
4.1) Why doesn't the postmaster start the first time?
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Section 0: Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0.1) What bugs do I need to fix before Postgres95 will compile
under Linux?
a) Fix the bug in src/Makefile.global:
Change
# Globally pass PORTNAME
CFLAGS+= -DPORTNAME_$(PORTNAME)
CFLAGS += -I ../../backend/port/$(PORTNAME)
to
# Globally pass PORTNAME
CFLAGS+= -DPORTNAME_$(PORTNAME)
CFLAGS += -I../../backend/port/$(PORTNAME)
(i.e. remove the space after the -I)
b) Add the missing prototype to src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.h
After the line
extern int findLastBuiltinOid();
add
extern void setMaxOid(FILE *fout);
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Section 1: Compiling Postgres95
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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installed. Either comment out the USE_READLINE variable in
src/Makefile.global or install the GNU readline library.
Note that Debian Linux (like FreeBSD) does come with readline
installed.
1.3) [REDHAT] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
The libdl library is used for dynamic linking of user-supplied
functions at run-time. For some reason this library was missed out
from the Redhat distribution.
from the Redhat distribution. It seems that the latest Redhat 4.0
(Colgate) fixes this.
You can obtain the library and the header file from:
RedHat now have a new ld.so RPM package on their FTP site.
Simply grab:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/devel/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ld.so-1.7.14-4.i386.rpm
Install the RPM file in the usual way and off you go!
There has been one report of a corrupted system resulting from
programs accessing these libraries while updating them (not
altogether surprising). Consequently it is a good idea to reboot
the system before installing the new libraries and to
have as little running as possible during this upgrade. Going
into single-user mode is probably a good idea!
If you want to do it the hard way, you can obtain the library and the
header file from:
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/packages/GCC/ld.so-1.7.14.tar.gz
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/ld.so-1.7.14.tar.gz
Alternatively, you may find precompiled binaries in
distributions/debian/buzz/binary-i386/base/ld.so-1.7.14-4.deb
on the same site, or follow the instructions given for question 1.2 for
correcting the same error with early releases of Slackware 3.1.
Don't use this method unless you know what you are doing!
1.4) [SLACKWARE 3.1] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
See the answer to question 1.1. Slackware up to version 3.0 was
See the answer to question 1.3. Slackware up to version 3.0 was
supplied with this library and include file and they seem to be
back in again in the latest versions of 3.1, but the early 3.1
releases (before 9th September 1996) had them missing and many
CD-ROM versions will have been pressed from the first 3.1 releases.
There has been one report of a corrupted system resulting from
programs accessing these libraries while updating them (not
altogether surprising). Consequently it is a good idea to reboot
the system before installing the new libraries and to
have as little running as possible during this upgrade. Going
into single-user mode is probably a good idea!
The easiest fix is to obtain the file ldso.tgz from the a4 disk of
a more recent Slackware 3.1 distribution and unpack this file
from the root (/) directory, then do
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1.5) My compile of the backend dies complaining about the include file
dlfcn.h missing
See the answer to question 1.2. Don't forget that if you are using
See the answer to question 1.3/1.4. Don't forget that if you are using
an a.out system you must first have installed the dld package
(which is not supplied with most a.out systems) to have dlfcn.h
at all. See Question 1.11.
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LD_ADD += -L/usr/lib/termcap -ltermcap
else
In fact, since ncurses uses terminfo rather than termcap, it should
be possible to change this line to
LD_ADD +=
since you shouldn't need the termcap library.
1.9) Why do I get problems with ld.so?
If you get problems with ld.so, another library required under
ELF for dynamic loading, then you have messed up your installation
or (more likely) upgrade of Linux.
See the answers to Question 1.2. You may need to install
See the answers to Question 1.3/1.4. You may need to install
ld.so.x.y.z in /lib and run ldconfig.
The most recent stable release of the ld package is 1.7.14
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1.13) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
src/Makefile.global?
These are Sun Solaris specific and shouldn't be in Makefile.global
The compile (including pgtclsh) seems to go OK even though
these don't exist...
This was a problem in 1.08 (they are Sun Solaris specific).
It is fixed in 1.09.
1.14) [DEBIAN] Where is libtermcap?
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V2.5.3 (supplied in doc/README.flex) or wait for V2.5.4 which
will fix the bug.
3.5) Why do I get an error like:
IpcMemoryCreate: memKey=155356396 , size=760632 ,
permission=384IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(..., create, ...)
failed: Invalid argument
You haven't build IPC support into your Linux kernel. You
will have to rebuild the kernel and switch on this option.
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......@@ -380,8 +401,10 @@ Section 4: Spurious Problems in Need of Verification
I haven't been able to repeat this problem! Nobody else has
reported anything similar.
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Dr. Andrew C.R. Martin, University College London & SciTech Software
EMAIL: martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk Tel:(Work) +44(0)171 419 3890
URL: http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~martin (Home) +44(0)1372 275775
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