PostgreSQL 13 beta 1 on FreeBSD via pgenv
Five days ago PostgreSQL 13 beta 1 has been released!It’s time to test the new awesome version of our beloved database. Installing from source is quite trivial, but why not using pgenv to such aim?
Installing on my FreeBSD machine with
pgenv is as simple as:
luca@miguel ~ % pgenv build 13beta1
...
PostgreSQL, contrib, and documentation installation complete.
pgenv configuration written to file /home/luca/git/pgenv/.pgenv.13beta1.conf
PostgreSQL 13beta1 built
Are you ready to test it?
Activate it and enjoy:
luca@miguel ~ % pgenv use 13beta1
...
server started
PostgreSQL 13beta1 started
Logging to /home/luca/git/pgenv/pgsql/data/server.log
luca@miguel ~ % psql -U postgres -c "SELECT version();" template1
version
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PostgreSQL 13beta1 on x86_64-unknown-freebsd12.1, compiled by gcc (FreeBSD Ports Collection) 9.2.0, 64-bit
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