Timescaledb: Missing packages (Debian) for arm platforms

[plaes]

Currently, the Debian packages (at least for current stable buster release) only exist for amd64 platform.

Would it be possible to also start pushing releases for armhf (and arm64) platforms?

[bboule]

@RobAtticus Please advise

[RobAtticus]

@bboule I think it shouldn't be too hard to do, as long as we run our testing on those platforms _before_ we get to the release process

[pymenow]

Looking forward to this on buster and later on bullseye. Please help make it happen @RobAtticus ! this is much needed for IOT

[mpw-eng]

[Disclaimer - I'm a real coding novice and just started learning how git works] - I've been using Timescaledb, Postgresql and Grafana on a Windows 10 host, and enjoy tinkering! I'm now attempting to do the same on a Raspberry Pi4 and can't install timescaledb. apt finds timescaledb-loader-postgresql-11, but not timescaledb-postgresql-11. I'm not sure what "loader" even does?

Is there a timescaledb beta I can try on the rp4 armhf arch?

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UPDATE

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Ok, I got the timescaledb extension running on the Raspberry Pi - as a novice, not sure this was the correct way but this is what I did (the checkout was the arm_test branch by @svenklemm );

git clone https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb.git timescaledb
cd timescaledb
git checkout b40bd84eadf187c170c33ccfc8582c0d0bc5624b
git checkout -b armhf-test
./bootstrap -DREGRESS_CHECKS=OFF  
sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-11  
sudo apt-get install -y libkrb5-dev  
cd ./build && make  
sudo make install

This was a bit of a long journey, and I'm sure lots of rpi users would appreciate an apt installer for armhf architecture :-)

[tkirchm]

An apt installer would be great.

[TrentonBush]

Similar to mpw-eng, I'm also new at this, so take this with a grain of salt. But I wanted to document my build process in case it helps anyone else. I didn't see any arm64 builds available on apt so had to build from source.

Host machine: raspberry pi 4 with aarch64 (arm64v8) kernel
OS: ubuntu server 20.04 64 bit
Compiler: cc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0

sudo apt install postgresql-12 postgresql-server-dev-12 libkrb5-dev libssl-dev

git clone https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb.git timescaledb
cd timescaledb
git checkout 2.0.0

./bootstrap -DREGRESS_CHECKS=OFF -DWARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=OFF
cd ./build && make  
sudo make install

The instructions in the timescale docs were not quite complete, at least for my system. Specifically, I had to figure out a few things from error messages:

• libkrb5-dev and libssl-dev dependencies
• -DREGRESS_CHECKS=OFF
• -DWARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=OFF. The compiler threw a Werror anytime the strncpy function was used, hence the flag.