David Fetter dfetter at lists.slony.info
Thu Apr 1 10:26:56 PDT 2010
Update of /home/cvsd/slony1/slony1-engine/doc/adminguide
In directory main.slony.info:/tmp/cvs-serv24780/doc/adminguide

Modified Files:
	prerequisites.sgml 
Log Message:
Fixed some obsolete prerequisites.


Index: prerequisites.sgml
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RCS file: /home/cvsd/slony1/slony1-engine/doc/adminguide/prerequisites.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.29
retrieving revision 1.30
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--- prerequisites.sgml	1 Apr 2010 17:26:54 -0000	1.30
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  <listitem><para> You also need a recent version of &postgres;
  <emphasis>source</emphasis>.  &slony1; depends on namespace support so
! you must have &postgres; version 7.3.3 or newer to be able to build
  and use &slony1;.  </para>
  
- <para> Earlier versions of &postgres; are <emphasis> not </emphasis>
- supported, but note that one user has <quote>hacked</quote> &slony1;
- to do a 7.2-to-7.4 upgrade; see <link linkend="v72upgrade"> &postgres;
- 7.2 notes </link>. </para>
- 
- <para> Versions of &postgres; prior to 7.4.8 may run into a
- longstanding race condition that leads to problems of <link
- linkend="dupkey"> <quote>duplicate keys</quote></link>, so you may
- want to consider upgrades if you are running earlier versions.</para>
- 
- <para> If you are running a version of &postgres; earlier
- than 8.0, you need to make sure that server header files were
- installed.  If installing from sources, this is done via the command
- <command>make install-all-headers</command>.  Otherwise, you will
- encounter the <link linkend="missingheaders"> missing headers for
- libpqserver</link> problem described in the FAQ.
- </para>
- 
- <para> If you are running versions 8.1.0 thru 8.1.3, there is a bug
- (addressed in 8.1.4) which prevents <xref
- linkend="stmtupdatefunctions"> from running properly.  For more
- details see the <xref linkend="FAQ">, <link
- linkend="pg81funs"> on &postgres; 8.1.[0-3] </link>. </para>
- 
- <para> There is variation between what versions of &postgres& are
- compatible with what versions of &slony1;.  See <xref
- linkend="installation"> for more details.</para>
- 
  </listitem>
  
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  <listitem><para> You also need a recent version of &postgres;
  <emphasis>source</emphasis>.  &slony1; depends on namespace support so
! you must have &postgres; version 8.3 or newer to be able to build
  and use &slony1;.  </para>
  
  </listitem>
  
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  <listitem><para> On &windows; you will also need the same <ulink url=
  "http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html">MinGW/Msys
! Toolset</ulink> used to build &postgres; 8.0 and above.  In addition
  you will need to install <ulink url=
  "http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/">pthreads-win32
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  <listitem><para> On &windows; you will also need the same <ulink url=
  "http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html">MinGW/Msys
! Toolset</ulink> used to build &postgres; 8.3 and above.  In addition
  you will need to install <ulink url=
  "http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/">pthreads-win32
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  installation.</para>
  
! <note><para>From &slony1; version 1.1, it is possible to compile
  &slony1; separately from &postgres;, making it practical for the
  makers of distributions of <productname>Linux</productname> and
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  installation.</para>
  
! <note><para>It is possible to compile
  &slony1; separately from &postgres;, making it practical for the
  makers of distributions of <productname>Linux</productname> and
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  experience any problems.  </para>
  
- <para> In &postgres; 8.1, changes were made to the
- <envar>UNICODE</envar> encoding because earlier versions accepted some
- invalid encodings.  This can lead to <link linkend="faqunicode">
- replication problems.</link> </para>
- 
  <para> Note also that if the client encoding (configured assortedly in
  <filename>postgresql.conf</filename>, parameter
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