Re: Performance Test for PostgreSQL9

I followed the advice from Melton Low and was able to make and make-install.

The reason I had to compile is because there are no binaries for regression
tests and the documentation requires us to make-install.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 13:19 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Selva manickaraja <mavles78(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > > We have installed PostgreSQL9 and setup standby(s). Now we have to test
> the
> > > performance before we migrate all the data from Informix. The
> PostgreSQL9
> > > that we installed is the Linux version from EnterpriseDB which runs on
> Red
> > > Hat. The documentation on PostgreSQL website shows that we have gmake
> from
> > > source. So for that purpose we downloaded the source into a UBuntu
> machine
> > > to gmake and install it. But UBuntu on the other hand complaints that
> it
> > > can't find gmake. So looks like we are stuck here.
> >
> > I am a bit confused. Why would you need to install from source
> > instead of using an installer (either from EnterpriseDB or installing
> > via apt-get)?
>
> To be rude but honest. If you can't solve that problem you really should
> contract with someone to help you with your performance tests because
> you are not going to be able to adequately tune PostgreSQL for a proper
> test.
>
> That said, the reason you can't find make is that you don't have the
> proper development tools installed.
>
> +1 to what Robert said.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
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