Welcome to the Candidate Release of Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3. This readme file contains the following topics:
Refer to Whats New in Pervasive PSQL for complete details about the new features and enhancements. This section provides only the highlights:
Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3 is compatible with Windows 7. It has been tested on the following versions:
For a full list of supported environments, refer to the System Requirements page on the Pervasive Software web site.
Note Product Activation does not apply to the Candidate Release. The Candidate Release installs a trial key that expires at the end of a trial period.
Product activation is a license validation process that verifies the copy of Pervasive PSQL is legitimate, correctly licensed, and on the appropriate hardware and software platform. Beginning with Pervasive PSQL v10, Pervasive began using product activation for PSQL trials and e-commerce versions obtained from the Pervasive Web site.
With Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3, product activation is also included in Pervasive PSQL software purchased from resellers and distributors. (That is, Pervasive PSQL as a boxed product.)
Currently, product activation is not included in Pervasive PSQL products available from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Note that, with Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3, a product can be activated within a virtual machine. The same licensing requirements apply whether using Pervasive PSQL directly on a physical machine or running it within a virtual machine. Since only one copy of the software may be associated with each license key, each virtual image (including clones and copies) requires its own key.
You can activate the product at installation time through the interactive graphical user interface (GUI), or after installation using the licensing utilities (see Note below). The installation GUI guides you though the activation process and is self-explanatory. If you choose to activate Pervasive PSQL after installation, see License Administrator chapter in Pervasive PSQL Users Guide.
Note On Windows 2000 only, you must active the product after installation by using a licensing utility. Because of limitations in the operating system, the Pervasive PSQL installation cannot provide product activation.
See also the Usage Note Activation of Workgroup Key on Vista and Windows 7 for a discussion of activating a key for Pervasive PSQL Workgroup.
The JRE is no longer invoked as a separate installation by the Pervasive PSQL installation. The components of the JRE needed by the following features are now installed as part of Pervasive PSQL unless an appropriate version of the JRE (1.6.0_01 or higher) is already installed on the system:
These features use the local version of the JRE installed by Pervasive PSQL if the system lacks a compatible version of the Sun JRE .
The trail license key that is included with the Pervasive PSQL Server and Workgroup installations has a trial period of 30 days. You have up to 30 days to activate the Pervasive PSQL product with a non-trial key. If not activated within 30 days, the database engine no longer runs.
The trial license for Pervasive PSQL Server 32-bit and 64-bit on both Window and Linux provides a user count of 20. The trail license for Pervasive PSQL Workgroup provides a user count of 5.
The memory requirements for the optional database accelerator Xtreme I/O (XIO) have increased to 4 GB.
In addition, XIO is now supported only on server class operating systems. The following Windows 32-bit operating systems are supported (XIO is not supported on 64-bit platforms):
This section discusses topics pertaining to the installation of the product on Windows and Linux.
Run the full (setup*.exe) Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3 installation for the following:
You must uninstall any previous version of Pervasive PSQL before you can install the Candidate Release of Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3. For this reason, we recommend that you install the Candidate Release only on a non-production machine.
If you have not installed the product and want to read about installation, see the portable document format (PDF) book Getting Started with Pervasive PSQL.
The following topics apply when you install to Windows.
To install Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3 silently, use the following command line option :
This example creates an installation log file in the Windows temp directory.
Linux installations are one of the following types:
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Pervasive PSQL on Linux, you must uninstall and then install Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3. For information on upgrading to Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3 on Linux, see Upgrade Installation in Getting Started with Pervasive PSQL.
Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3 supports Linux distributions running Kernel 2.6.0 or higher. For information on installing Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3 on Linux, see Installing Pervasive PSQL for Linux in Getting Started with Pervasive PSQL.
Full installation packages are available for Linux. A full installation includes the necessary engine and client files, all available utilities and the complete user documentation.
The following table outlines the installation packages available.
This section lists the known issues for Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3.
This section discusses situations you may encounter using the product after installation. See also Known Issues.
You may obtain technical support from the following Web-based support options:
Pervasive PSQL is Certified for Windows 2008 Server (64-bit editions). As part of the certification requirements, the following topics are included in this readme file.
The following two tables list files installed with the Pervasive PSQL v10 SP3 products on Windows platforms that are not digitally signed.
The following Java Runtime Environment (JRE) files from Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) are installed as required (see JRE Components Included in Installation). The JRE is a set of computer software programs and data structures that use a virtual machine model for the execution of other computer programs and scripts.
The technical details of each Windows Installer Custom Action executed during the Pervasive PSQL installation process are available to System Administrators. This information is listed in the document PSQL_CA_Reference.rtf, which is embedded in the Pervasive PSQL MSI installation packages.
Administrators can view and print the RTF content from the "Custom Action Reference" dialog which is only displayed during an Administrative Installation. An administrative Installation can be launched the following ways.
The Pervasive PSQL Server installation stores the following log files on the system drive in the folder C:\exts:
The following files require Administrator privileges to run.
The following files do not install to the applications directory:
The following files, which are part of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), do not contain valid file version information:
Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) contains icon resource files with a file name extension of exe. Note that these files, despite the file name extension, are not executable files.
Such files are located in the %windir%\Installer\{install_type_product_code}\ directory.
For example, in that directory you might see files with names similar to c:\Windows\Installer\{0A3238D7-AC64-1010-B717-F3E3F18B4A8C}\ARPPRODUCTICON.exe and c:\Windows\Installer\{0A3238D7-AC64-1010-B717-F3E3F18B4A8C}\pvswDocsShortcut.A01E0590_D2E0_43CE_B351_BB16EA0FBDE0.exe.
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