INSTALL-debian-ubuntu.md

Installing firebird_fdw on Debian/Ubuntu

Package installation

Currently no packages are available for Debian/Ubuntu.

Source installation

Prerequisites

• libfq, a libpq-like API wrapper for the Firebird C API; see:

  https://github.com/ibarwick/libfq

  This will need to be built from source too; see the instructions in the libfq repository. NOTE the latest libfq version should be used with the current firebird_fdw version, as the two are usually developed in tandem.

• following packages must be installed:

  • firebird-dev
  • libfbclient2

If PostgreSQL itself is not installed from source, the appropriate dev package is also required:

• postgresql-server-dev-{VERSION}

where {VERSION} corresponds to the PostgreSQL version firebird_fdw is being built against (e.g.12, 9.6).

IMPORTANT: you must build firebird_fdw against the PostgreSQL version it will be installed on.

Building

Ensure the pg_config binary for the target PostgreSQL version is in the shell path; then execute:

`make && sudo make install`

which should build and install firebird_fdw.