Setup Linux for PostgreSQL Development (from Git)

This very brief article is a primer for those wanting to start developing on PostgreSQL:

Getting your Linux (Ubuntu / CentOS) machine ready for (PostgreSQL related) development

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install build-essential git libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autotools-dev automake libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev bison flex libssl-dev libpq-dev 

CentOS: sudo yum install git libxml2-devel libxslt-devel automake autoconf readline-devel zlib-devel bison flex gcc openssl-devel

Get Postgresql source (from Git)

• git clone git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git
• Would take some time (~1-15 minutes) but YMMV
• ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/master --enable-depend --enable-cassert 
• make -j4
• sudo make install
• cd contrib
• make -j4
• sudo make install
• /opt/postgres/master/bin/initdb -D /opt/postgres/master/data
• /opt/postgres/master/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/postgres/master/data -l logfile start

If you want to know more about hacking on PostgreSQL in general, you could always refer to the (very) detailed PostgreSQL Developer FAQ:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ

Happy Hacking :) ! 


git checkout REL9_6_STABLE && git pull && ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/96 --enable-depend && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd contrib && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd .. && sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgres/96

git checkout REL_10_STABLE && git pull && ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/10 --enable-depend && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd contrib && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd .. && sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgres/10

git checkout REL_11_STABLE && git pull && ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/11 --enable-depend && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd contrib && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd .. && sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgres/11

git checkout REL_12_STABLE && git pull && ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/12 --enable-depend && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd contrib && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd .. && sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgres/12

git checkout REL_13_STABLE && git pull && ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/13 --enable-depend && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd contrib && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd .. && sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgres/13

git checkout REL_14_STABLE && git pull && ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/14 --enable-depend && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd contrib && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd .. && sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgres/14

git checkout master && git pull && ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres/master --enable-depend && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd contrib && make -j`nproc` && sudo make install && cd .. && sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgres/master

Setup Ubuntu for PgAdmin Development (from Git)

This article is a primer for those wanting to start developing on PgAdmin on an Ubuntu 12.10.

Getting Ubuntu ready for development

• sudo apt-get install build-essential
• sudo apt-get install git
• sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
• sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev
• sudo apt-get install autotools-dev
• sudo apt-get install automake
• sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev
• sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Install PostgreSQL Database

• Click here for detailed steps.

Get PgAdmin source

• mkdir pgadmin
• cd pgadmin/
• git clone git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgadmin3.git
• Would take some time (~10 minutes) but YMMV
• cd pgadmin3/
• bash bootstrap
• ./configure
• make
• make install

These steps should give you a freshly compiled PgAdmin3 binary, customized for your system.