PostgreSQL Version Manager, or simply pgvm is a tool to manage multiple PostgreSQL installations.
To install just type:
curl -s -L https://raw.github.com/guedes/pgvm/master/bin/pgvm-self-install | bash
Then open a new terminal or type source ~/.bashrc on Linux, or source ~/.bash_profile on OS X and voilà!
If you want to install it in another directory you could pass it to --pgvm-home like this:
curl -s -L https://raw.github.com/guedes/pgvm/master/bin/pgvm-self-install | bash -s -- --pgvm-home=/usr/local/pgvm
pgvm was tested on Debian and OS X, please open a issue if you find a bug on this OSes
Once you installed pgvm you could like to see which
PostgreSQL versions were installed. In fact the pgvm
installation didn't install any.
You list all PostgreSQL installed version with the
action list:
$ pgvm list
Please install some PostgreSQL version using 'pgvm install'!
As you can see, there isn't any. Lets install one
using the action install:
$ pgvm install 9
downloading 'http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.2.0/postgresql-9.2.0.tar.gz', please be patient... done.
checking 'postgresql-9.2.0.tar.gz' integrity... done.
extracting postgresql-9.2.0.tar.gz ... done.
configuring PostgreSQL Version: 9.2.0 ... done.
compiling ... done.
installing ... done.
Notice that the version supplied was 9 but pgvm
found that the last PostgreSQL version is 9.2.0.
Now suppose we want to install the 8.4.11 version
with cassert enabled, using more cores of our
processors, just export MAKE_OPTS and CONFIG_OPTS
with the options for make and configure respectively,
like bellow:
$ MAKE_OPTS="-j 10" CONFIG_OPTS="--enable-cassert" pgvm install 8.4.11
downloading 'http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v8.4.11/postgresql-8.4.11.tar.gz', please be patient... done.
checking 'postgresql-8.4.11.tar.gz' integrity... done.
extracting postgresql-8.4.11.tar.gz ... done.
configuring PostgreSQL Version: 8.4.11 ... done.
compiling ... done.
installing ... done.
So now you have two PostgreSQL versions installed:
$ pgvm list
PostgreSQL Installed Version:
8.4.11
9.2.0
Then pgvm allow you use one of them:
$ pgvm use 92.0
version 92.0 is not installed
Ops! A little typo, sorry! :/
$ pgvm use 9.2.0
switched to 9.2.0
Ah! So now my current version is 9.2.0? Well
lets just confirm:
$ pgvm current
9.2.0
$ pgvm list
PostgreSQL Installed Version:
8.4.11
=> 9.2.0
Seems that pgvm tell us in two ways, by the
action current or when listing version by
placing a => before the version we are using!
The binaries are there in the correct version:
$ pg_config --version
PostgreSQL 9.2.0
$ psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 9.2.0
$ pgvm use 8.4.11
$ pg_config --version
PostgreSQL 8.4.11
$ psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 8.4.11
Ok, this is nice but how about clusters? Lets create one!
$ pgvm use 9.2.0
switched to 9.2.0
$ pgvm cluster list
there is no clusters in current environment (9.2.0)
$ pgvm cluster create my_cluster
initializing cluster in '/home/guedes/pgvm/clusters/9.2.0/my_cluster'... ok!
$ pgvm cluster start my_cluster
starting cluster my_cluster@9.2.0
LOG: database system was shut down at 2012-09-22 21:55:03 UTC
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
$ pgvm cluster list
cluster in current enviroment (9.2.0):
my_cluster is online at port 5433
$ pgvm cluster create my_another_cluster
initializing cluster in '/home/guedes/pgvm/clusters/9.2.0/my_another_cluster'... ok!
$ pgvm cluster start my_another_cluster
starting cluster my_another_cluster@9.2.0
LOG: database system was shut down at 2012-09-22 21:55:06 UTC
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
$ pgvm cluster list
cluster in current enviroment (9.2.0):
my_another_cluster is online at port 5434
my_cluster is online at port 5433
Now we have two online clusters and notice that
pgvm choose specific ports to each one.
You can pass options to initdb when creating
a new cluster:
$ pgvm use 8.4.11
switched to 8.4.11
$ pgvm cluster create latin1_cluster --encoding=latin1 --locale=en_US
And you can remove some cluster
$ pgvm cluster create to_be_removed
initializing cluster in '/home/guedes/pgvm/clusters/8.4.11/to_be_removed'... ok!
$ pgvm cluster start to_be_removed
starting cluster to_be_removed@8.4.11
LOG: database system was shut down at 2012-09-22 21:55:13 UTC
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
$ pgvm cluster remove to_be_removed
To remove cluster 'to_be_removed' use 'pgvm cluster remove to_be_removed --force'
$ pgvm cluster remove to_be_removed --force
stopping cluster to_be_removed@8.4.11
LOG: received smart shutdown request
LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down
LOG: shutting down
LOG: database system is shut down
removing 'to_be_removed' directory '/home/guedes/pgvm/clusters/8.4.11/to_be_removed' ... ok
Maybe you are a PostgreSQL developer and wants to install from
master branch ...
$ pgvm install master
getting postgres from 'git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git'
Cloning into '/home/guedes/pgvm/src/postgresql-clone'...
configuring PostgreSQL Version: master ... done.
compiling ... done.
installing ... done.
$ pgvm use master
switched to master
$ pgvm cluster create cl_test_master
initializing cluster in '/home/guedes/pgvm/clusters/master/cl_test_master'... ok!
$ pgvm cluster start cl_test_master
starting cluster cl_test_master@master
LOG: database system was shut down at 2012-09-22 21:58:49 UTC
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
$ pgvm cluster list
cluster in current enviroment (master):
cl_test_master is online at port 5436
... or from a specific commit to test something ...
$ pgvm install 088c065
configuring PostgreSQL Version: 088c065 ... done.
compiling ... done.
installing ... done.
$ pgvm use 088c065
switched to 088c065
$ pgvm cluster create cl_test_other
initializing cluster in '/home/guedes/pgvm/clusters/088c065/cl_test_other'... ok!
$ pgvm cluster start cl_test_other
starting cluster cl_test_other@088c065
LOG: database system was shut down at 2012-09-22 22:01:06 UTC
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
$ pgvm cluster list
cluster in current enviroment (088c065):
cl_test_other is online at port 5437
By the way, you can start a console on any cluster:
$ pgvm current
088c065
$ pgvm console my_cluster@9.2.0
connecting to cluster 'test' on port '5433' ...
psql (9.2.0)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=#
Or you can redirect commands to:
$ echo "select version()" | pgvm console latin1_cluster@8.4.11
connecting to cluster 'test' on port '5435' ...
version
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.4.11 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 4.7.2-1) 4.7.2, 64-bit
(1 row)
pvgm has the following dependencies:
bashcurlorwgetc compilergmakereadlinezlibgitin order to get PostgreSQL trunk version.
See the issue list of enhancements.
pgvm was inspired by rvm, a Ruby enVironment Manager created by Wayne E. Seguin.
Copyright (c) 2012,2013 Dickson S. Guedes.
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