{"id":4858,"date":"2015-06-12T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T07:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/testing-postgresql-development-snapshots\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T07:36:38","slug":"testing-postgresql-development-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/testing-postgresql-development-snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing postgresql development snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to test some of the <a title=\"next postgresql features release\" href=\"http:\/\/dbi-services.com\/blog\/what-will-be-coming-with-the-next-major-version-of-postgresql\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">features that will be coming with the next postgresql release<\/a> even before an official beta version is released you can use the daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/ftp\/snapshot\/dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development snapshot<\/a> . Here is a simple makefile for downloading the snapshot, compiling the source and starting up the postgresql instance ( Attention: Makefiles work with tabs, so make sure that the lines begin with a tab instead of spaces where the lines are indented ):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: actionscript3; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">PGBASEVER=9.5\nPG=http:\/\/ftp.postgresql.org\/pub\/snapshot\/dev\/postgresql-snapshot.tar.bz2\nPGFILE=postgresql-snapshot.tar.bz2\nCURRDIR=$(shell pwd)\nDATADIR=$(CURRDIR)\/data\n\nfromscratch: reset download buildpg initdb startdb\n\nreset: stopdb\n\trm -rf build\n\trm -rf install\n\trm -rf data\n\tmkdir build\n\tmkdir install\n\tmkdir data\n\ndownload:\n\twget ${PG}\n\tmv ${PGFILE} build\/\n\nbuildpg:\n\t( cd build &amp;&amp; tar -axf ${PGFILE} )\n\t( cd build\/postgresql-${PGBASEVER}* &amp;&amp; .\/configure --prefix=${CURRDIR}\/install )\n\t( cd build\/postgresql-${PGBASEVER}* &amp;&amp; make )\n#\t( cd build\/postgresql-${PGBASEVER}* &amp;&amp; make check )\n\t( cd build\/postgresql-${PGBASEVER}* &amp;&amp; make install world )\n\t( cd build\/postgresql-${PGBASEVER}*\/contrib &amp;&amp; make install )\n\ninitdb:\n\t( echo \"postgres\" &gt; ${CURRDIR}\/pgpasswd )\n\t( cd install\/bin &amp;&amp; .\/initdb -D ${DATADIR} --pwfile ${CURRDIR}\/pgpasswd )\n\nstartdb:\n\t( install\/bin\/pg_ctl -D ${DATADIR} start) \n\nstopdb:\n\tif [ -f ${DATADIR}\/postmaster.pid ]; then \n\t\t( install\/bin\/pg_ctl -D ${DATADIR} stop -m fast ) \n\tfi\n<\/pre>\n<p>Before building postgresql you should take care that the required operating system packages are in place. For redhat based distributions these are:<\/p>\n<pre>gcc openldap-devel python-devel readline-devel openssl-devel redhat-lsb bison flex perl-ExtUtils-Embed zlib-devel crypto-utils openssl-devel pam-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel tcl tcl-devel\n<\/pre>\n<p>Copy the Makefile to your home directory (or anywhere else) on a linux server:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">[postgres2@oel7 ~]$ ls -la Makefile\n-rw-r--r--. 1 postgres2 root 941 May 28 11:26 Makefile<\/pre>\n<p>Then just execute the make command providing the fromscratch target:<\/p>\n<pre>make fromscratch<\/pre>\n<p>Once everything was executed you can login to postgresql:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: actionscript3; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">[postgres2@oel7 ~]$ install\/bin\/psql\npsql (9.5devel)\nType \"help\" for help.\npostgres=# select version();\n                                                     version                                                     \n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 9.5devel on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9), 64-bit\n(1 row)\n<\/pre>\n<p>Have fun testing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to test some of the features that will be coming with the next postgresql release even before an official beta version is released you can use the daily development snapshot . 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