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2 | | -Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL 7.1 |
| 2 | +Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL 7.2 |
3 | 3 | Sun Solaris specific |
4 | 4 | to be read in conjunction with the installation instructions |
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6 | | -last updated: $Date: 2001/04/08 16:36:13 $ |
| 6 | +last updated: $Date: 2001/12/10 13:02:20 $ |
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8 | | -current maintainer: Marc Liyanage (liyanage@access.ch) |
9 | | -original author: Marc Liyanage (liyanage@access.ch) |
| 8 | +current maintainer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> |
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12 | 11 | Contents: |
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14 | 13 | 1) What tools do I need to build and install PostgreSQL on Solaris? |
15 | 14 | 2) Why do I get problems when building with OpenSSL support? |
16 | 15 | 3) Why does configure complain about a failed test program? |
17 | | -4) A bunch of regression tests fail in random, non-reproduceable |
18 | | - patterns. What's wrong? |
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21 | 18 | 1) What tools do I need to build and install PostgreSQL on Solaris? |
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65 | 62 | and restart configure. You will also have to keep this setting |
66 | 63 | whenever you run any of the installed PostgreSQL programs. |
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68 | | -In the future, consider installing the offending libraries so they |
69 | | -provide their own "rpath". |
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72 | | -4) A bunch of regression tests fail in random, non-reproduceable |
73 | | - patterns. What's wrong? |
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75 | | -A lot of users have reported that the parallel regression test suite |
76 | | -causes a varying, unpredictable set of tests to fail, usually tests in |
77 | | -the second half of the run. The failure is usually a failure to |
78 | | -connect to the server at all, or an abrupt loss of the connection. |
79 | | -Invariably, these problems go away when the regression test suite is |
80 | | -changed to use TCP/IP sockets instead of Unix domain sockets. (Change |
81 | | -line 163 of src/test/regress/pg_regress to match *solaris*; yes, there |
82 | | -should be an easier way to do this.) Since a number of users do not |
83 | | -seem to have any problems with this at all, we do not claim that "Unix |
84 | | -domain sockets are broken on Solaris", but feel free to draw your own |
85 | | -conclusions, or better yet, share your insights with the rest of us. |
| 65 | +Alternatively, set the environment variable LD_RUN_PATH. See the |
| 66 | +ld(1) man page for more information. |