adapt installation instruction for different frontends

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

diff --git a/docs/admin/Installation.md b/docs/admin/Installation.md
index f5411604ef4a5bfeae7b06ed94796b271e63ea8e..3de913b4b6305be99f0262c829cf82eac45d1735 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/admin/Installation.md
+++ b/docs/admin/Installation.md
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ This page contains generic installation instructions for Nominatim and its
 prerequisites. There are also step-by-step instructions available for
 the following operating systems:
 
+  * [Ubuntu 22.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-22.md)
   * [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)
 
 These OS-specific instructions can also be found in executable form
 in the `vagrant/` directory.
@@ -24,9 +23,9 @@ and can't offer support.
 ### 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 PostgrSQL 13+ and Postgis 3.2+.
+    Query performance has marked improvements with PostgreSQL 13+ and PostGIS 3.2+.
 
 For compiling:
 
@@ -36,6 +35,7 @@ For compiling:
   * [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/)
   * [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/)
   * [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/)
+  * [nlohmann/json](https://json.nlohmann.me/)
   * [Boost libraries](https://www.boost.org/), including system and filesystem
   * PostgreSQL client libraries
   * a recent C++ compiler (gcc 5+ or Clang 3.8+)
@@ -44,38 +44,48 @@ For running Nominatim:
 
   * [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+)
+  * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (3.7+)
   * [Psycopg2](https://www.psycopg.org) (2.7+)
   * [Python Dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv)
   * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil)
   * [Jinja2](https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/)
+  * [SQLAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/) (1.4.31+ with greenlet support)
+  * [asyncpg](https://magicstack.github.io/asyncpg) (0.8+)
   * [PyICU](https://pypi.org/project/PyICU/)
   * [PyYaml](https://pyyaml.org/) (5.1+)
   * [datrie](https://github.com/pytries/datrie)
-  * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.0 or later)
+
+When running the PHP frontend:
+  * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.3+)
   * PHP-pgsql
   * PHP-intl (bundled with PHP)
-  * PHP-cgi (for running queries from the command line)
 
 For running continuous updates:
 
   * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/)
 
+For running the experimental Python frontend:
+
+  * one of the following web frameworks:
+    * [falcon](https://falconframework.org/) (3.0+)
+    * [starlette](https://www.starlette.io/)
+  * [uvicorn](https://www.uvicorn.org/)
+
 For dependencies for running tests and building documentation, see
 the [Development section](../develop/Development-Environment.md).
 
 ### 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.
 
 Even on a well configured machine the import of a full planet takes
-around 2 days. On traditional spinning disks, 7-8 days are more realistic.
+around 2 days. When using traditional SSDs, 4-5 days are more realistic.
 
 ## Tuning the PostgreSQL database
 
@@ -89,8 +99,7 @@ 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
 
@@ -108,15 +117,6 @@ you might consider setting:
 and even reduce `autovacuum_work_mem` further. This will reduce the amount
 of memory that autovacuum takes away from the import process.
 
-For the initial import, you should also set:
-
-    fsync = off
-    full_page_writes = off
-
-Don't forget to reenable them after the initial import or you risk database
-corruption.
-
-
 ## Downloading and building Nominatim
 
 ### Downloading the latest release
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
 The development version does not include the country grid. Download it separately:
 
 ```
-wget -O Nominatim/data/country_osm_grid.sql.gz https://www.nominatim.org/data/country_grid.sql.gz
+wget -O Nominatim/data/country_osm_grid.sql.gz https://nominatim.org/data/country_grid.sql.gz
 ```
 
 ### Building Nominatim