On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Jutta Buschbom <jutta.buschbom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hallo, > > At our institute we decided to use PostGreSQL as our new server-based > database system. The installation of PostGreSQL 9.0.0 on SLES 10 x64 went > fine. However, before I start configuring the system and start creating > databases, users etc. I am wondering, which functionality I need to give the > system right from the start that I cannot add later. The problem is that I > don’t know what users might need in the future and being new to database > management I might find out that some administrative functionality is > necessary later on. > > Thus, my question: using “./configure –help” quite a lot of optional > packages are listed for language support (PL/xxx) and network > access/authentication, plus there is the feature to enable native language > support. Do I install all these, just in case, or is there a possibility to > add those packages and features later on as necessary? How does one go about > this? Thanks a lot for your advice in advance. You can install them later. The only things you can't change without a dump and reload are architectural, like integer datestamps and 32 versus 64 bit. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
