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To: AJ ONeal <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion?
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 16:09:21 -0700
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On 5/3/24 15:57, AJ ONeal wrote:
> Back in the good old days there was official 1st-party support for Linux:
Still there.
The below is for the EDB installer, which at this point is only for
MacOS and Windows as Unixen platforms have there own packaging. This
was/is a third party site.
> https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads
> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads;
>
> Those binaries could be |tar xvf|'d and used without any fuss or muss,
> from any location, on any distro.
>
> I'm the core maintainer of https://webinstall.dev/
> <https://webinstall.dev/> and I'm thinking to break our "official builds
> only" rule because, well, I haven't been able to find any way to get
> up-to-date builds from an official channel - and |apt| is always
> half-a-decade out-of-date (part of the reason for Webi, but Webi is far
> worse in this case, stuck at v10).
I don't see that. Using PGDG repo on Ubuntu 22.04:
apt list --installed | grep postgres
postgresql-14/jammy-pgdg,now 14.11-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed]
postgresql-15-pgtap/jammy-pgdg,now 1.3.3-1.pgdg22.04+1 all [installed]
postgresql-15/jammy-pgdg,now 15.6-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed]
postgresql-16-pgtap/jammy-pgdg,now 1.3.3-1.pgdg22.04+1 all [installed]
postgresql-16-unit/jammy-pgdg,now 7.8-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed]
postgresql-16/jammy-pgdg,now 16.2-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
postgresql-client-14/jammy-pgdg,now 14.11-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64
[installed,automatic]
postgresql-client-15/jammy-pgdg,now 15.6-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64
[installed,automatic]
postgresql-client-16/jammy-pgdg,now 16.2-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64
[installed,automatic]
postgresql-client-common/jammy-pgdg,now 259.pgdg22.04+1 all
[installed,automatic]
postgresql-common/jammy-pgdg,now 259.pgdg22.04+1 all [installed,automatic]
postgresql-plpython3-14/jammy-pgdg,now 14.11-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed]
postgresql-plpython3-15/jammy-pgdg,now 15.6-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed]
postgresql-plpython3-16/jammy-pgdg,now 16.2-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed]
postgresql-server-dev-16/jammy-pgdg,now 16.2-1.pgdg22.04+1 amd64 [installed]
postgresql/jammy-pgdg,now 16+259.pgdg22.04+1 all [installed]
>
> Could I get some help on how to do that?
> Are the old build processes documented somewhere? Or are there some
> scripts in a far corner of the Internet that could still do that?
As to Apt build scripts:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt/RepoDocs
>
> Or what options might I need to pass to ./configure to get it to build
> with relative locations?
> I'm not a C developer, and I'm not familiar with C build tools beyond
> |./configure; make; sudo make install|.
>
> I'd really appreciate some direction on this. Thanks.
>
> AJ ONeal
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