citus/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to Citus

We're happy you want to contribute! You can help us in different ways:

• Open an issue with suggestions for improvements
• Fork this repository and submit a pull request

Getting and building

Mac

1. Install XCode

2. Install packages with homebrew

   brew update
   brew install git openssl postgresql
   brew link openssl --force
   

3. Get the code

   git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git
   

4. Build and test

   cd citus
   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install
   cd src/test/regress
   make check-multi
   

Linux

1. Install a C compiler and Git 1.8+

2. Install packages

   # Using APT
   apt-get update
   apt-get install -y make git wget libreadline-dev libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev libselinux1-dev libpam-ocaml-dev
   
   # Using YUM
   yum install -y openssl-devel pam-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel readline-devel zlib-devel postgresql95-devel postgresql95-server
   

3. Install PostgreSQL 9.5 (instructions)

4. Get the code

   git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git
   

5. Build and test

   cd citus
   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install
   cd src/test/regress
   make check-multi