This is a personal collection of shell scripts to easily develop and test several PostgreSQL at once.

Checkout the project in $HOME/pgsql

git clone https://github.com/mnencia/pgenv.git $HOME/pgsql

Add the following lines to ~/.bashrc

# pgenv
if [ -r "$HOME/pgsql/pgenv.sh" ] ; then
    . "$HOME/pgsql/pgenv.sh"
fi

Reload the current shell

exec bash

Initial postgresql checkout

git clone git:https://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git $HOME/pgsql/master

In Ubuntu, install these packages, which are necessary for configure-all.sh

sudo apt-get install tcl-dev libssl-dev build-essential bison flex \
    libreadline-dev libxml2-dev

If you use openSUSE, you must install these packages:

sudo zypper in -t pattern devel_C_C++
sudo zypper in tcl-devel libxml2-devel readline-devel libopenssl-devel

If you use Archlinux, please be sure that these packages are installed:

sudo pacman -S tcl libxml2 openssl bison flex base-devel

Build and install the development head version

cd ~/pgsql
./configure-all.sh master
./install-all.sh master

Add a $VERSION checkout (e.g. 9.4, 9.3, etc...)

cd ~/pgsql
./new-branch.sh $VERSION

Build and install the $VERSION version

cd ~/pgsql
./configure-all.sh $VERSION
./install-all.sh $VERSION

Upgrade all the installed versions

cd ~/pgsql
./pull-all.sh
./clean-all.sh
./configure-all.sh
./install-all.sh

Upgrade only one version (numeric version or master)

cd ~/pgsql
./pull-all.sh
./clean-all.sh $VERSION
./configure-all.sh $VERSION
./install-all.sh $VERSION

Usage: pgworkon VERSION [COMMAND]

set the environment to use the specific version, if a COMMAND is specified, execute it in the target environment but leave the current environment untouched

There are four special commands to be executed directly using pgworkon: start, stop, restart, reinit This allows to use the following syntax to control the execution status of a version

pgworkon $VER {start|stop|restart|reinit}

Usage: pgreinit

destroy the current $PGDATA and run initdb again, , available only after a pgworkon call

controls the state of the current environment, available only after a pgworkon call

reset the state and exit from any environment

list the running instances