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Enterprise Postgres 17 Installation and Setup Guide for Server

2.1 Required Operating System

One of the operating systems shown below is required in order to use Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres. Check and use minor version, which is certified and currently supported by Red Hat or SUSE for IBM Power LE (POWER9 and POWER10).

Note

The sepgsql module, which is a PostgreSQL extension, can be used in RHEL8.

Information

  • The following packages are required for operations on RHEL8.

    Package name

    Remarks

    alsa-lib

    -

    audit-libs

    -

    bzip2-libs

    Required when using pgBackRest.

    cyrus-sasl-lib

    -

    pcp-system-tools

    Required when using parallel scan.

    gdb

    Required when using pgx_fjqssinf command.

    glibc

    -

    iputils

    Required for Mirroring Controller.

    libnsl2

    -

    libicu

    Provides collation support.
    Install 60.x.

    libgcc

    -

    libmemcached

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    libstdc++

    -

    libtool-ltdl

    Required when using ODBC drivers.

    libzstd

    -

    llvm

    Versions 17.0.x, 16.0.x, 15.0.x, 14.0.x, or 13.0.x of llvm is required to run SQL with runtime compilation (just-in-time compilation).

    Install the package that contains libLLVM-17.so,llibLLVM-16.so, llibLLVM-15.so, llibLLVM-14.so, or libLLVM-13.so.

    For example, version 17.0.x of "llvm-libs" published with Application Streams includes libLLVM-17.so.

    By default, version 17.0.x is used.

    If you use a version other than 17.0.x, specify the version you want to use in the jit_provider parameter in postgresql.conf.

    For example, use llvmjit-vsn16 when using version 16.0.x. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres uses runtime compilation by default.If you do not want to use runtime compilation, turn off the jit parameter in postgresql.conf.You do not need to install llvm if you turn off the jit parameter.

    If the jit parameter is on and llvm is not installed, an error may occur during SQL execution. For more information about runtime compilation, see "Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT)" in the PostgreSQL Documentation.

    lz4-libs

    -

    ncurses-libs

    -

    net-tools

    -

    nss-softokn-freebl

    -

    pam

    Required when using PAM authentication.

    perl-libs

    Required when using PL/Perl.
    Install 5.26.

    protobuf-c

    Required if using the Transparent Data Encryption feature when using a key management system as a keystore.
    Install 1.3.0.

    python3

    Required when using PL/Python based on Python 3.
    Install 3.9.x.

    rsync

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    sysstat

    Required when using pgx_fjqssinf command. Set up the sar command after installation.

    redhat-lsb

    -

    libselinux

    Required for sepgsql.

    tcl

    Required when using PL/Tcl.
    Install 8.6.

    unzip

    -

    xz-libs

    -

    zlib

    -

    java-1.8.0-openjdk

    Required when using the database multiplexing and WebAdmin. Use build 1.8.0.312.b07 or later for ppc64le architecture.

  • The following packages are required for operations on RHEL9.

    Package name

    Remarks

    alsa-lib

    -

    audit-libs

    -

    bzip2-libs

    Required when using pgBackRest.

    cyrus-sasl-lib

    -

    pcp-system-tools

    Required when using parallel scan.

    gdb

    Required when using pgx_fjqssinf command.

    glibc

    -

    iputils

    Required for Mirroring Controller.

    libnsl2

    -

    libicu

    Provides collation support.
    Install 67.x.

    libgcc

    -

    libmemcached-awesome

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    libstdc++

    -

    libtool-ltdl

    Required when using ODBC drivers.

    libzstd

    -

    llvm

    Versions 17.0.x, 16.0.x, or 15.0.x of llvm is required to run SQL with runtime compilation (just-in-time compilation).

    Install the package that contains libLLVM-17.so,llibLLVM-16.so, or llibLLVM-15.so.

    For example, version 17.0.x of "llvm-libs" published with Application Streams includes libLLVM-17.so.

    By default, version 17.0.x is used.

    If you use a version other than 17.0.x, specify the version you want to use in the jit_provider parameter in postgresql.conf.

    For example, use llvmjit-vsn16 when using version 16.0.x. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres is configured to use runtime compilation by default. If you do not want to use runtime compilation, turn off the jit parameter in postgresql.conf. If you turn off the jit parameter, you do not need to install llvm.

    If the jit parameter is on and llvm is not installed, an error may occur during SQL execution. For more information about runtime compilation, see "Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT) " in the PostgreSQL Documentation.

    lz4-libs

    -

    ncurses-libs

    -

    net-tools

    -

    nss-softokn-freebl

    -

    pam

    Required when using PAM authentication.

    perl-libs

    Required when using PL/Perl.
    Install 5.32.

    protobuf-c

    Required if using the Transparent Data Encryption feature when using a key management system as a keystore.
    Install 1.3.3.

    python3

    Required when using PL/Python based on Python 3.
    Install 3.9.x.

    rsync

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    sysstat

    Required when using pgx_fjqssinf command. Set up the sar command after installation.

    libselinux

    Required for sepgsql.

    tcl

    Required when using PL/Tcl.
    Install 8.6.

    unzip

    -

    xz-libs

    -

    zlib

    -

    java-1.8.0-openjdk

    Required when using the database multiplexing and WebAdmin. Use build 1.8.0.322.b06 or later for ppc64le architecture.

  • The following packages are required for operations on SLES 15.

    Package name

    Remarks

    dstat

    Required when using parallel scan.

    gdb

    Required when using pgx_fjqssinf command.

    glibc

    -

    iputils

    Required for Mirroring Controller.

    libaudit1

    -

    libbz2-1

    Required when using pgBackRest.

    libgcc_s1

    -

    libicu-suse65_1

    Provides collation support.
    Install 65.

    liblz4-1

    -

    libmemcached

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    libncurses6

    -

    libstdc++6

    -

    libz1

    -

    libzstd1

    -

    llvm

    Install version 15.0.x of llvm to run SQL with runtime compilation (just-in-time compilation) and add the directory where the shared library libLLVM -*.so is located to the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

    Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres uses runtime compilation by default. If you do not want to use runtime compilation, turn off the jit parameter in postgresql.conf. You do not need to install llvm if you turn off the jit parameter.

    If the jit parameter is on and llvm is not installed, an error may occur during SQL execution. For more information about runtime compilation, see "Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT)" in the PostgreSQL Documentation.

    libLLVM15

    Install version 15.0.x.

    net-tools

    -

    pam

    Required when using PAM authentication.

    perl

    Required when using PL/Perl.
    Install 5.26.

    protobuf-c

    Required if using the Transparent Data Encryption feature when using a key management system as a keystore.
    Install 1.3.2.

    python3

    Required when using PL/Python based on Python 3.
    Install 3.6.x.

    rsync

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    sysstat

    Required when using pgx_fjqssinf command. Set up the sar command after installation.

    tcl

    Required when using PL/Tcl.
    Install 8.6.

    java-1_8_0-openjdk

    Required when using the database multiplexing and WebAdmin. Use build 1.8.0.312 or later for ppc64le architecture.