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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.323 2009/06/12 15:53:32 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.324 2009/06/17 21:58:49 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="installation">
<title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ su - postgres
<listitem>
<para>
- You need an <acronym>ISO</>/<acronym>ANSI</> C compiler (minimum
+ You need an <acronym>ISO</>/<acronym>ANSI</> C compiler (at least
C89-compliant). Recent
versions of <productname>GCC</> are recommendable, but
<productname>PostgreSQL</> is known to build using a wide variety
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ su - postgres
command you type, and allows you to use arrow keys to recall and
edit previous commands. This is very helpful and is strongly
recommended. If you don't want to use it then you must specify
- the <option>--without-readline</option> option of
+ the <option>--without-readline</option> option to
<filename>configure</>. As an alternative, you can often use the
BSD-licensed <filename>libedit</filename> library, originally
developed on <productname>NetBSD</productname>. The
@@ -422,11 +422,10 @@ su - postgres
On systems that have <productname>PostgreSQL</> started at boot time,
there is probably a start-up file that will accomplish the same thing. For
example, on a <systemitem class="osname">Red Hat Linux</> system one
- might find that:
+ might find that this works:
<screen>
<userinput>/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql stop</userinput>
</screen>
- works.
</para>
</step>
@@ -471,7 +470,7 @@ su - postgres
<step>
<para>
- Start the database server, again the special database user
+ Start the database server, again using the special database user
account:
<programlisting>
<userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</>
@@ -1648,7 +1647,7 @@ All of PostgreSQL is successfully made. Ready to install.
later on. To reset the source tree to the state in which it was
distributed, use <command>gmake distclean</>. If you are going to
build for several platforms within the same source tree you must do
- this and rebuild for each platform. (Alternatively, use
+ this and re-configure for each platform. (Alternatively, use
a separate build tree for each platform, so that the source tree
remains unmodified.)
</para>
@@ -1675,7 +1674,7 @@ All of PostgreSQL is successfully made. Ready to install.
</indexterm>
<para>
- On several systems with shared libraries
+ On some systems with shared libraries
you need to tell the system how to find the newly installed
shared libraries. The systems on which this is
<emphasis>not</emphasis> necessary include <systemitem