Setup Ubuntu for PostgreSQL Development (from tarball)

This very brief article is a primer for those wanting to start developing on PostgreSQL (on Ubuntu 12.10):

Getting Ubuntu ready for (PostgreSQL related) 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 libreadline-dev
• sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Get Postgresql source

• Download: http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.2.2/postgresql-9.2.2.tar.bz2
• tar -jxf postgresql-9.2.2.tar.bz2
• ./configure
• make
• make install

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 :) !