This is the next post in this little series about PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. You can find the previous one here:
- PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started
- PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration
- PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from packages
The downside with installing from packages on FreeBSD is, that you can only run one version of PostgreSQL. If you want to run more than one, you need to install from source code, and this is the topic of this post.
AS the first step lets remove the PostgreSQL installation we did in the last post:
root@freebsd:~ $ pkg remove postgresql13-server postgresql13-client
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 2 packages (of 0 packages in the universe):
Installed packages to be REMOVED:
postgresql13-client: 13.1
postgresql13-server: 13.1_1
Number of packages to be removed: 2
The operation will free 53 MiB.
Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Deinstalling postgresql13-server-13.1_1...
[1/2] Deleting files for postgresql13-server-13.1_1: 100%
==> You should manually remove the "postgres" user.
==> You should manually remove the "postgres" group
[2/2] Deinstalling postgresql13-client-13.1...
[2/2] Deleting files for postgresql13-client-13.1: 100%
As this will not remove $PGDATA lets get rid of that as well:
root@freebsd:~ $ rm -rf /var/db/postgres/data13/
We should also remove the auto start configuration:
root@freebsd:~ $ sed -i".bak" '$d' /etc/rc.conf root@freebsd:~ $ cat /etc/rc.conf hostname="freebsd.it.dbi-services.com" keymap="ch.kbd" ifconfig_em0="DHCP" ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.22.17 netmask 255.255.255.0" sshd_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable dumpdev="AUTO" zfs_enable="YES"
When we installed PostgreSQL from packages some additional packages have been installed as well, lets remove them, too:
root@freebsd:~ $ pkg remove libffi libedit libxml2 python37 perl5 lua52 llvm11 icu-68
No packages matched for pattern 'icu-68'
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 7 packages (of 0 packages in the universe):
Installed packages to be REMOVED:
libedit: 3.1.20191231,1
libffi: 3.3_1
libxml2: 2.9.10_2
llvm11: 11.0.1
lua52: 5.2.4
perl5: 5.32.1_1
python37: 3.7.9_1
Number of packages to be removed: 7
The operation will free 884 MiB.
Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y
[1/7] Deinstalling llvm11-11.0.1...
[1/7] Deleting files for llvm11-11.0.1: 100%
[2/7] Deinstalling python37-3.7.9_1...
[2/7] Deleting files for python37-3.7.9_1: 100%
[3/7] Deinstalling lua52-5.2.4...
[3/7] Deleting files for lua52-5.2.4: 100%
[4/7] Deinstalling libffi-3.3_1...
[4/7] Deleting files for libffi-3.3_1: 100%
[5/7] Deinstalling libedit-3.1.20191231,1...
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[6/7] Deinstalling libxml2-2.9.10_2...
[6/7] Deleting files for libxml2-2.9.10_2: 100%
[7/7] Deinstalling perl5-5.32.1_1...
[7/7] Deleting files for perl5-5.32.1_1: 100%
Now we should have the same state of the system as before we installed PostgreSQL from packages. We’ll not delete the postgres user and group, as we can just re-use them for installing from source code.
To download the source code we need something like wget, and to make life a bit easier we’ll also install sudo:
root@freebsd:~ $ pkg install wget sudo
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 4 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
libidn2: 2.3.0_1
libunistring: 0.9.10_1
sudo: 1.9.5p2
wget: 1.20.3_1
Number of packages to be installed: 4
The process will require 11 MiB more space.
2 MiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/4] Fetching wget-1.20.3_1.txz: 100% 651 KiB 666.2kB/s 00:01
[2/4] Fetching sudo-1.9.5p2.txz: 100% 943 KiB 966.1kB/s 00:01
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[4/4] Fetching libunistring-0.9.10_1.txz: 100% 527 KiB 539.8kB/s 00:01
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/4] Installing libunistring-0.9.10_1...
[1/4] Extracting libunistring-0.9.10_1: 100%
[2/4] Installing libidn2-2.3.0_1...
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The sudo configuration in FreeBSD is not in /etc but in /usr/local/etc, and as we trust the postgres user we allow everything without a password:
root@freebsd:~ $ cat /usr/local/etc/sudoers | grep postgres postgres ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Lets download the source code:
root@freebsd:~ # su - postgres $ pwd /var/db/postgres $ wget https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v13.2/postgresql-13.2.tar.bz2 $ ls -l total 20585 -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 21057276 Feb 8 23:07 postgresql-13.2.tar.bz2 $ tar xvf postgresql-13.2.tar.bz2 $ ls -l total 20593 drwxr-xr-x 6 postgres postgres 19 Feb 8 23:07 postgresql-13.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 21057276 Feb 8 23:07 postgresql-13.2.tar.bz2 $ cd postgresql-13.2
Before can run “configure” we need to install all the dependencies:
$ sudo pkg install perl5 perl5-devel python3 libressl-devel libxml2 libxslt openldap-client llvm11
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 14 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
libedit: 3.1.20191231,1
libffi: 3.3_1
libgcrypt: 1.8.7
libgpg-error: 1.41
libressl-devel: 3.3.1
libxml2: 2.9.10_2
libxslt: 1.1.34_1
llvm11: 11.0.1
lua52: 5.2.4
openldap-client: 2.4.57
perl5: 5.32.1_1
perl5-devel: 5.33.4.81
python3: 3_3
python37: 3.7.9_1
Number of packages to be installed: 14
The process will require 975 MiB more space.
20 MiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
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Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
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=====
Message from python37-3.7.9_1:
--
Note that some standard Python modules are provided as separate ports
as they require additional dependencies. They are available as:
py37-gdbm databases/py-gdbm@py37
py37-sqlite3 databases/py-sqlite3@py37
py37-tkinter x11-toolkits/py-tkinter@py37
=====
Message from openldap-client-2.4.57:
--
The OpenLDAP client package has been successfully installed.
Edit
/usr/local/etc/openldap/ldap.conf
to change the system-wide client defaults.
Try `man ldap.conf' and visit the OpenLDAP FAQ-O-Matic at
http://www.OpenLDAP.org/faq/index.cgi?file=3
for more information.
Here is the configure command (this might look differently for you, depending on what you want to have enabled):
$ sudo mkdir -p /u01/app
$ sudo chown postgres:postgres /u01/app
$ bash
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ PGHOME=/u01/app/postgres/product/13/db_2/
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ SEGSIZE=2
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ BLOCKSIZE=8
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ ./configure --prefix=${PGHOME} --exec-prefix=${PGHOME} --bindir=${PGHOME}/bin --libdir=${PGHOME}/lib --with-libraries=/usr/local/lib --with-includes=/usr/local/include --sysconfdir=${PGHOME}/etc --includedir=${PGHOME}/include --datarootdir=${PGHOME}/share --datadir=${PGHOME}/share --with-pgport=5432 --with-perl --with-python --with-openssl --with-pam --with-ldap --with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-segsize=${SEGSIZE} --with-blocksize=${BLOCKSIZE} --with-llvm LLVM_CONFIG='/usr/local/llvm11/bin/llvm-config'
...
config.status: creating GNUmakefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile.global
config.status: creating src/include/pg_config.h
config.status: creating src/include/pg_config_ext.h
config.status: creating src/interfaces/ecpg/include/ecpg_config.h
config.status: linking src/backend/port/tas/dummy.s to src/backend/port/tas.s
config.status: linking src/backend/port/posix_sema.c to src/backend/port/pg_sema.c
config.status: linking src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c to src/backend/port/pg_shmem.c
config.status: linking src/include/port/freebsd.h to src/include/pg_config_os.h
Compile and install:
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ make all You must use GNU make to build PostgreSQL. *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped in /var/db/postgres/postgresql-13.2
Ok, so we missed to install make:
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ sudo pkg install gmake
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
gmake: 4.3_2
Number of packages to be installed: 1
The process will require 2 MiB more space.
416 KiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Fetching gmake-4.3_2.txz: 100% 416 KiB 425.6kB/s 00:01
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Installing gmake-4.3_2...
[1/1] Extracting gmake-4.3_2: 100%
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ make world
Using GNU make found at /usr/local/bin/gmake
...
/usr/local/bin/gmake -C config all
gmake[1]: Entering directory '/var/db/postgres/postgresql-13.2/config'
gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/var/db/postgres/postgresql-13.2/config'
gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/var/db/postgres/postgresql-13.2/contrib/ltree_plpython'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/var/db/postgres/postgresql-13.2/contrib'
PostgreSQL, contrib, and documentation successfully made. Ready to install.
That’s it. Finally, install:
[postgres@freebsd ~/postgresql-13.2]$ make install-world ... cd '/u01/app/postgres/product/13/db_2//lib/bitcode' && /usr/local/llvm11/bin/llvm-lto -thinlto -thinlto-action=thinlink -o ltree_plpython3.index.bc ltree_plpython3/ltree_plpython.bc gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/var/db/postgres/postgresql-13.2/contrib/ltree_plpython' gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/var/db/postgres/postgresql-13.2/contrib' PostgreSQL, contrib, and documentation installation complete.
If you script that, it is not much more work than installing from packages, and you have the full flexibility. The downside is, that you need to come with your on start/stop scripts and that you need to compile any third party extension for your own.
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