TDS Foreign data wrapper

  • Author: Geoff Montee
  • Name: tds_fdw
  • File: tds_fdw/InstallCentOS.md

Installing on CentOS/RHEL

This document will show how to install tds_fdw on CentOS 6. Other CentOS and RHEL distributions should be similar.

Install EPEL

In CentOS, you need the EPEL repository installed to install FreeTDS.

bash sudo yum install epel-release

Install FreeTDS

The TDS foreign data wrapper requires a library that implements the DB-Library interface, such as FreeTDS.

bash sudo yum install freetds freetds-devel

Install PostgreSQL

If you need to install PostgreSQL, do so by following the yum installation directions. For example, to install PostgreSQL 9.4 on CentOS 6:

bash wget http://yum.postgresql.org/9.4/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-centos94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -ivh pgdg-centos94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm sudo yum install postgresql94 postgresql94-server postgresql94-libs postgresql94-devel

Install tds_fdw

Build from release package

If you'd like to use one of the release packages, you can download and install them via something like the following:

bash wget https://github.com/GeoffMontee/tds_fdw/archive/v1.0.2.tar.gz tar -xvzf tds_fdw-1.0.2.tar.gz cd tds_fdw-1.0.2 PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.4/bin:$PATH make USE_PGXS=1 sudo PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.4/bin:$PATH make USE_PGXS=1 install

Build from repository

If you would rather use the current development version, you can clone and build the git repository via something like the following:

bash git clone https://github.com/GeoffMontee/tds_fdw.git cd tds_fdw PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.4/bin:$PATH make USE_PGXS=1 sudo PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.4/bin:$PATH make USE_PGXS=1 install

Start server

If this is a fresh installation, then initialize the data directory and start the server:

bash sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.4 initdb sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.4 start

Install extension

bash /usr/pgsql-9.4/bin/psql -U postgres postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION tds_fdw;