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 ccache 

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 https://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 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