### Software
!!! Warning
- For larger installations you **must have** PostgreSQL 11+ and Postgis 3+
+ 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 PostgreSQL 13+ and PostGIS 3.2+.
For compiling:
### Hardware
A minimum of 2GB of RAM is required or installation will fail. For a full
-planet import 64GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report
+planet import 128GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report
out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM.
-For a full planet install you will need at least 900GB of hard disk space.
+For a full planet install you will need at least 1TB of hard disk space.
Take into account that the OSM database is growing fast.
Fast disks are essential. Using NVME disks is recommended.
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
fsync = off
full_page_writes = off
-Don't forget to reenable them after the initial import or you risk database
+Don't forget to re-enable them after the initial import or you risk database
corruption.
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:
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