In this recipe, we are going to install pgpool.
Installing pgpool from source requires GCC 2.9 or higher and GNU Make. Since pgpool links with the libpq
library, the libpq
library and its development headers must be installed prior to installing pgpool. Also the OpenSSL library and its development headers must be present in order to enable OpenSSL support in pgpool.
To install pgpool in a Debian or Ubuntu-based distribution we can execute the following command:
apt-get install pgpool2
On Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, or any other RHEL-based Linux distributions, use the following command:
yum install pgpool*
If you are building from source, then follow these steps:
Download the latest tarball of pgpool from the following website: http://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads.
The next step is to extract the pgpool tarball and enter the source directory:
tar -xzf pgpool-II-3.4.0.tar.gz cd pgpool-II-3.4.0 ...