Sun Solaris specific

to be read in conjunction with the installation instructions

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last updated: $Date:2002/11/11 20:04:05 $

last updated: $Date:2003/10/09 17:11:13 $

current maintainer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

1) What tools do I need to build and install PostgreSQL on Solaris?

2) Why do I get problems when building with OpenSSL support?

3) Why does configure complain about a failed test program?

5) Why does my 64-bit build sometimes crash?

4) Why does my 64-bit build sometimes crash?

1) What tools do I need to build and install PostgreSQL on Solaris?

does not matter.)

Then build as usual.

5) How can I compile for optimum performance?

Try using the "-fast" compile flag. The binaries might not be portable to

other Solaris systems, and you might need to compile everything that links

to PostgreSQL with "-fast", but PostgreSQL will run significantly faster,

50% faster on some tests.

CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -pipe"

#CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -pipe"

case $host_cpu in

i?86) CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m486";;