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Chapter 1. Installation Instructions

This chapter describes the installation of PostgreSQL from the source code distribution.

1.1. Short Version

./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.

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