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- case.
+ Further discussion appears in
+
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+ which you are encouraged to read in any case.
Enables Native Language Support (
NLS),
that is, the ability to display a program's messages in a
language other than English.
- LANGUAGES is a space separated
+ LANGUAGES is a space-separated
list of codes of the languages that you want supported, for
example --enable-nls='de fr'>. (The intersection
between your list and the set of actually provided
- Prevents
the use of the
Readline> library. This disables
+ Prevents use of the
Readline> library. This disables
command-line editing and history in
psql, so it is not recommended.
- Build with Rendezvous support.
+ Build with Rendezvous support. This requires Rendezvous support
+ in your operating system. Recommended on Mac OS X.
Make the client libraries thread-safe. This allows
concurrent threads in
libpq and
ECPG programs to safely control
- their private connection handles.
+ their private connection handles. This option requires adequate
+ threading support in your operating system.
- Prevents the use of the
Zlib> library. This disables
- compression support in
pg_dump.
+
+
+ Prevents use of the
Zlib> library. This disables
+ support for compressed archives in
pg_dump
This option is only intended for those rare systems where this
library is not available.
If you prefer a C compiler different from the one
- configure picks then you can set the
+ configure picks, you can set the
environment variable CC> to the program of your choice.
By default, configure will pick
- gcc unless this is inappropriate for the
- platform. Similarly, you can override the default compiler flags
- with the CFLAGS variable.
+ gcc if available, else the platform's
+ default (usually cc>). Similarly, you can override the
+ default compiler flags if needed with the CFLAGS variable.
If you are upgrading an existing system and are going to install
- the new files over the old ones, then you should have backed up
- your data and shut down the old server by now, as explained in
+ the new files over the old ones, be sure to back up
+ your data and shut down the old server before proceeding, as explained in
above.
The standard installation provides all the header files needed for client
- application development as well as for any server-side program
- development (such as custom functions or data types written in C).
+ application development as well as for server-side program
+ development, such as custom functions or data types written in C.
+ (Prior to
PostgreSQL> 8.0, a separate gmake
+ install-all-headers> command was needed for the latter, but this
+ step has been folded into the standard install.)