Installing PgBouncer

In this recipe, we are going to show the steps that are required to install PgBouncer.

Getting ready

We can either do a full source-based installation or use the operating system-specific package manager to install PgBouncer.

How to do it...

On an Ubuntu/Debian based system, we need to execute the following command to install PgBouncer:

apt-get install pgbouncer

On CentOS, Fedora, or Red Hat-based Linux distributions, we can execute the following command:

yum install pgbouncer

If you are doing a full source based installation, then the sequence of commands are mentioned here:

1. Download the archive installation file from the given link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbouncer

2. Extract the downloaded archive and enter the source directory:

           tar -xzf pgbouncer-1.5.4.tar.gz 
           cd pgbouncer-1.5.4 
   
   

3. The next step is to build and proceed with the software installation:

           ./configure --prefix=/usr 
           make & make install  
   
   

4. After PgBouncer...