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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 the target IBM z / Linux One hardware.

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.

    glibc

    -

    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

    Version 11.0.x of llvm is required to run SQL with runtime compilation (just-in-time compilation).

    Install the package that contains libLLVM-11.so.

    For example, version 11.0.x of "llvm-libs" published with Application Streams includes libLLVM-11.so.

    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.

    Note:

    If JIT compilation using LLVM is performed on RHEL8, a verbose server message is logged one or more times on first query execution, for each associated database connection.

    <Message>

    ORC error: No callback manager available for s390x-ibm-linux

    This error message results from a known deficiency in one of the features of the LLVM library for IBM Z, but this feature is not used by the server and the error does not otherwise affect LLVM operation.

    To prevent this message from being logged, JIT compilation may be disabled, by setting the value "off" to the configuration variable "jit".

    lz4-libs

    -

    ncurses-libs

    -

    net-tools

    -

    nss-softokn-freebl

    -

    opencryptoki

    Required if transparent data encryption is used in conjunction with a hardware security module.
    Install 3.12.1 or later into default directory.

    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.

    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 1.8.0.242.b08 or later for s390x 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.

    glibc

    -

    libnsl2

    -

    libicu

    Provides collation support.

    Install 60.x.

    libgcc

    -

    libmemcached-awesome

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    libstdc++

    -

    libtool-ltdl

    Required when using ODBC drivers.

    libzstd

    -

    llvm

    Version 13 of llvm is required to run SQL using run-time compilation.

    Install the package that contains libLLVM -13 .so.

    For example, version 13.0 .x of "lvm-libs " published with Application Streams includes libLLVM -13 .so.

    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

    -

    opencryptoki

    Required if transparent data encryption is used in conjunction with a hardware security module.
    Install 3.12.1 or later into default directory.

    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.

    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 1.8.0.352.b08 or later for s390x architecture.

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

    Package name

    Remarks

    alsa-lib

    -

    audit-libs

    -

    dstat

    Required when using parallel scan.

    glibc

    -

    libgcc

    -

    libbz2-1

    Required when using pgBackRest.

    libicu

    Provides collation support.
    Install 52.

    liblz4-1

    -

    libmemcached

    Required when using Pgpool-II.

    libstdc++6

    -

    libtool-ltdl

    Required when using ODBC drivers.

    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.

    ncurses-libs

    -

    net-tools

    -

    nss-softokn-freebl

    -

    opencryptoki

    Required if transparent data encryption is used in conjunction with a hardware security module.
    Install 3.10 or later into default directory.

    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 1.3.2.

    python3

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

    sysstat

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

    tcl

    Required when using PL/Tcl.
    Install 8.6.

    xz-libs

    -

    zlib

    -

    java-1_8_0-openjdk

    Required when using the database multiplexing and WebAdmin. Use build 1.8.0.302 or later for s390x architecture.