Note that as development builds, these packages have had very little testing and should not be used on production systems.
Friday, 2 January 2009
PostgreSQL Early Experience Installers
Hot on the heels of Devrim's Snapshot RPMs, I'm pleased to say we now have 'early experience' one-click installers available to download and play with the latest features committed to the PostgreSQL and pgAdmin source trees. We're aiming to update the installers periodically after interesting features are added - the first of which is Hitoshi Harada's SQL:2008 Window Functions patch for PostgreSQL.
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Congrats. Good work.
ReplyDeleteHi Dave,
ReplyDeletegreat work. I just get the following error, when starting pre-8.4 server on the same windows box with an 8.3 server running.
%t FATAL: could not create lock file "postmaster.pid": Permission denied
Regards,
Jan
The installer just forgot setting the permissions for the postgres user on the installation directory. Now the server runs perfectly and the windowing functions are just great. Great to you use the nth_value() function, which is not implemented yet by Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server.
ReplyDeletegood idea. would be great if you also note the underlying postgres versions on the page (i.e. pgsql8.4-dev). without this blog article as reference, users might be unaware of what they are actually installing.
ReplyDeleteHi Jan,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info - I'll get one of the team to look at that.
Hi Thomas,
ReplyDeleteThe text is quite clear I thought: 'built from the latest source code available from each project' and 'These installers were built on 1st January 2009.'.
I guess it could be argued that it could easily be the latest code from a stable branch though - I'll figure out an appropriate change.
Thanks!