Chapter 14. Installation Instructions
This
chapter describes the installation of
PostgreSQL from the source code
distribution. (If you are installing a pre-packaged distribution,
such as an RPM or Debian package, ignore this
chapter
and read the packager's instructions instead.)
./configure
gmake
su
gmake install
adduser postgres
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
su - postgres
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
The long version is the rest of this
chapter.