| From: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl |
| Cc: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Certification |
| Date: | 2005-06-24 22:43:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20050625.074319.39153023.t-ishii@sra.co.jp |
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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:42:00AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > >>Regarding question 3,
> > >>
> > >> Select one incorrect statement regarding the installation of PostgreSQL.
> > >>
> > >>2 2. At least 60MB of free disk space is required for compilation.
>
> > Number 2 is
> > also confusing because am I compiling ALL of PostgreSQL? I just did a
> > check and it took 63 megs just to unpack it, let alone compile it.
>
> The current source CVS tree (after bison, flex etc) takes 122 MB.
> 143 MB for the compiled tree (object files), and 63 MB for the installed
> tree (after initdb).
>
> 8.0 is smaller AFAICS, but I don't have the compiled tree.
The question is targted for 7.4. postgresql-7.4.8.tar.gz takes 58M to
unpack on my Linux/ext3 box. 80M for compiled tree. So I admit that
above number "60MB" should be a little bit raised.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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