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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:36:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        "F. Marcos" <marcos@eig.unige.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Postgres95 and FBSD 2.1R
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110152743.252A-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <30F38FEE.451C@eig.unige.ch>

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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, F. Marcos wrote:

> So, my question is : Is there someone on the list with experience on compiling 
> Postgres95 on a 2.1R box ?

Yes!

You must install the latest version of flex from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu. I
strongly recommend either (a) grabbing the malloc.c from freebsd-current's
libc, rebuild and install, or (b) linking with gnumalloc.  

With the malloc in 2.1, postgres ate up all 64 meg of swapspace in the 
process of making an rtree index on a 310,000 row table.  With gnumalloc, 
postgres is a much better citizen.  I have not yet tried it with 
freebsd-current's malloc (aka phkmalloc).

I made a number of other small tweaks to the build process and if you 
pester me enough, I might even dig them out.   ;-)

-john

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