PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide

The PostgreSQL Development Team

Edited by

Thomas Lockhart

PostgreSQL is Copyright © 1996-9 by the Postgres Global Development Group.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Resources
Terminology
Notation
Y2K Statement
Copyrights and Trademarks

Currently Supported Platforms
Unsupported Platforms

3. Configuration Options

Parameters for Configuration (configure)

Parameters for Building (make)

Locale Support

What are the Benefits?
What are the Drawbacks?

Kerberos Authentication

Availability
Installation
Operation

4. System Layout

5. Installation

Requirements to Run Postgres
Installation Procedure
Playing with Postgres
The Next Step
Porting Notes

6. Installation on Win32

Building the libraries
Installing the libraries
Using the libraries

7. Runtime Environment

Using Postgres from Unix

Starting postmaster

Using pg_options

Recognized Options

8. Security

User Authentication

User Names and Groups

Creating Users
Creating Groups
Assigning Users to Groups

Access Control

Functions and Rules

Functions
Rules
Caveats

9. Adding and Deleting Users

10. Disk Management

Alternate Locations

11. Managing a Database

Creating a Database

Accessing a Database

Destroying a Database

Backup and Restore

Large Databases

12. Troubleshooting

Postmaster Startup Failures

Client Connection Problems

Debugging Messages

pg_options

13. Database Recovery

14. Regression Test

Regression Environment

Directory Layout

Regression Test Procedure

Regression Analysis

Error message differences
OID differences
Date and time differences
Floating point differences
Polygon differences
Random differences
The “expected” files

15. Release Notes

Release 6.5.1

Migration to v6.5.1
Detailed Change List

Release 6.5

Migration to v6.5
Detailed Change List

Release 6.4.2

Migration to v6.4.2
Detailed Change List

Release 6.4.1

Migration to v6.4.1
Detailed Change List

Release 6.4

Migration to v6.4
Detailed Change List

Release 6.3.2

Detailed Change List

Release 6.3.1

Detailed Change List

Release 6.3

Migration to v6.3
Detailed Change List

Release 6.2.1

Migration from v6.2 to v6.2.1
Detailed Change List

Release 6.2

Migration from v6.1 to v6.2
Migration from v1.x to v6.2
Detailed Change List

Release 6.1.1

Migration from v6.1 to v6.1.1
Detailed Change List

Release 6.1

Migration to v6.1
Detailed Change List

Release v6.0

Migration from v1.09 to v6.0
Migration from pre-v1.09 to v6.0
Detailed Change List

Release v1.09

Release v1.02

Migration from v1.02 to v1.02.1
Dump/Reload Procedure
Detailed Change List

Release v1.01

Migration from v1.0 to v1.01
Detailed Change List

Release v1.0

Detailed Change List

Postgres95 Beta 0.03

Detailed Change List

Postgres95 Beta 0.02

Detailed Change List

Postgres95 Beta 0.01

Timing Results

v6.5
v6.4beta
v6.3
v6.1

Bibliography

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