Merge pull request #2761 from lonvia/repair-index-analysis

[nominatim.git] / docs / admin / Installation.md

diff --git a/docs/admin/Installation.md b/docs/admin/Installation.md
index 0258b8ff86290de9d6adf1907bfc808b4929db82..96546cf3de57dabd1f27b338220767216235f2d7 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/admin/Installation.md
+++ b/docs/admin/Installation.md
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ the following operating systems:
   * [Ubuntu 20.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-20.md)
   * [Ubuntu 18.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-18.md)
   * [CentOS 8](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-8.md)
-  * [CentOS 7.2](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-7.md)
 
 These OS-specific instructions can also be found in executable form
 in the `vagrant/` directory.
@@ -24,6 +23,11 @@ and can't offer support.
 
 ### Software
 
+!!! Warning
+    For larger installations you **must have** PostgreSQL 11+ and Postgis 3+
+    otherwise import and queries will be slow to the point of being unusable.
+    Query performance has marked improvements with PostgrSQL 13+ and Postgis 3.2+.
+
 For compiling:
 
   * [cmake](https://cmake.org/)
@@ -38,8 +42,8 @@ For compiling:
 
 For running Nominatim:
 
-  * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.5+ will work, 11+ strongly recommended)
-  * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net) (2.2+)
+  * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.6+ will work, 11+ strongly recommended)
+  * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net) (2.2+ will work, 3.0+ strongly recommended)
   * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (3.6+)
   * [Psycopg2](https://www.psycopg.org) (2.7+)
   * [Python Dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv)
@@ -85,8 +89,7 @@ your `postgresql.conf` file.
     work_mem = (50MB)
     effective_cache_size = (24GB)
     synchronous_commit = off
-    checkpoint_segments = 100 # only for postgresql <= 9.4
-    max_wal_size = 1GB # postgresql > 9.4
+    max_wal_size = 1GB
     checkpoint_timeout = 10min
     checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
 
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ If you want to install latest development version from github, make sure to
 also check out the osm2pgsql subproject:
 
 ```
-git clone --recursive git://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
 ```
 
 The development version does not include the country grid. Download it separately:
@@ -154,6 +157,17 @@ make
 sudo make install
 ```
 
+!!! warning
+    The default installation no longer compiles the PostgreSQL module that
+    is needed for the legacy tokenizer from older Nominatim versions. If you
+    are upgrading an older database or want to run the
+    [legacy tokenizer](../customize/Tokenizers.md#legacy-tokenizer) for
+    some other reason, you need to enable the PostgreSQL module via
+    cmake: `cmake -DBUILD_MODULE=on ../Nominatim`. To compile the module
+    you need to have the server development headers for PostgreSQL installed.
+    On Ubuntu/Debian run: `sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-<postgresql version>`
+
+
 Nominatim installs itself into `/usr/local` per default. To choose a different
 installation directory add `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install root>` to the
 cmake command. Make sure that the `bin` directory is available in your path