Contributing to Citus

We’re happy you want to contribute! You can help us in different ways:

  • Open an issue with suggestions for improvements
  • Fork this repository and submit a pull request

Before accepting any code contributions we ask that Citus contributors sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). For an explanation of why we ask this as well as instructions for how to proceed, see the Citus CLA.

Getting and building

Mac

  1. Install Xcode
  2. Install packages with Homebrew
  brew update
  brew install git postgresql
  1. Get, build, and test the code
  git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git

  cd citus
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  cd src/test/regress
  make check

Debian-based Linux (Ubuntu, Debian)

  1. Install build dependencies
  echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" | \
       sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
  wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | \
       sudo apt-key add -
  sudo apt-get update

  sudo apt-get install -y postgresql-server-dev-9.5 postgresql-9.5 \
                          libedit-dev libselinux1-dev libxslt-dev  \
                          libpam0g-dev git flex make
  1. Get, build, and test the code
  git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git
  cd citus
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  cd src/test/regress
  make check

Red Hat-based Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora)

  1. Find the PostgreSQL 9.5 RPM URL for your repo at yum.postgresql.org
  2. Register its contents with Yum:
  sudo yum install -y <url>
  1. Install build dependencies
  sudo yum update -y
  sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
  sudo yum install -y postgresql95-devel postgresql95-server    \
                      libxml2-devel libxslt-devel openssl-devel \
                      pam-devel readline-devel git

  git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git
  cd citus
  PG_CONFIG=/usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/pg_config ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  cd src/test/regress
  make check