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authorAchilleas Pipinellis <axilleas@axilleas.me>2017-02-14 16:07:46 +0100
committerAchilleas Pipinellis <axilleas@axilleas.me>2017-02-14 16:07:46 +0100
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Add MySQL info in install requirements
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### Unsupported Unix distributions
-- OS X
- Arch Linux
- Fedora
-- Gentoo
- FreeBSD
+- Gentoo
+- macOS
On the above unsupported distributions is still possible to install GitLab yourself.
Please see the [installation from source guide](installation.md) and the [installation guides](https://about.gitlab.com/installation/) for more information.
@@ -120,7 +120,12 @@ To change the Unicorn workers when you have the Omnibus package please see [the
## Database
-If you want to run the database separately expect a size of about 1 MB per user.
+We currently support the following databases:
+
+- PostgreSQL (recommended)
+- MySQL/MariaDB
+
+If you want to run the database separately, expect a size of about 1 MB per user.
### PostgreSQL Requirements
@@ -128,7 +133,9 @@ Users using PostgreSQL must ensure the `pg_trgm` extension is loaded into every
GitLab database. This extension can be enabled (using a PostgreSQL super user)
by running the following query for every database:
- CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm;
+```
+CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm;
+```
On some systems you may need to install an additional package (e.g.
`postgresql-contrib`) for this extension to become available.