CHAPTER 25 INSTALLING POSTGRESQL Step 3. Add (Web site counters)
CHAPTER 25 INSTALLING POSTGRESQL Step 3. Add the PostgreSQL bin Directory to Your System Path For reasons of convenience, add the location of PostgreSQL s bin directory to your system path. Although this is not a requirement, doing so enables you to run the applications found in that directory regardless of your present location in the path. If you want to do this only for your user, add the following information to your shell configuration file (which typically resides in your home directory). Otherwise, add it to /etc/profile to make this convenience available to every user. PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH export PATH Once these changes have been saved to the appropriate file, you need to either log out and log back in again or, depending on the shell you re using, use the source command to effect the changes. With these three steps completed, proceed to the section Starting PostgreSQL for the First Time. Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Only as of version 8.0 has a native version of PostgreSQL been available for the Windows platform. However, despite being such a new addition, the installer is already very usable, making installation on the Windows platform quite trivial. Please note that PostgreSQL cannot be installed on the FAT file system; only NTFS is supported. The following steps outline the installation process on Windows: 1. Installation Language and Log: Unzip the package, and then click the postgres-X.X.msi icon, found in the downloaded installer package, to begin the installation process. The first installer screen prompts you to choose a preferred language for the process. Presently the installer supports the Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish languages. At this stage you can also choose to write a log that details the installation process. Typically this is necessary only during troubleshooting situations, but feel free to check this box if you want to learn more about exactly what happens during installation. Choose the appropriate language and, if necessary, enable the log. Click the Start button to continue. 2. Installation Welcome and Notes: The next few screens offer a welcome message and information regarding installation issues, licensing terms, and various other pertinent bits of data. Feel free to peruse these screens, and then proceed by clicking Next. 3. Installation Options: Next you are presented with installation options. These options are broken into four categories: 1. Database Server: This category contains options for installing the data directory files, for enabling non-English support for status and error messages, and for supporting geographical data. If you don t require the latter two options, feel free to leave both disabled. However, be sure to leave the data directory installation option enabled.
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