Simple PostgreSQL Installation Guide

Roberto Mello (rmello@fslc.usu.edu)

A very simple PostgreSQL installation guide to aid OpenACS users, based on the PostgreSQL Administrators Guide. Not intended to be a full-blown guide to every imaginable architecture on the planet. This was written in a GNU/Linux box, so some adaptation may be necessary for other platforms. This guide does not apply for Windows environments. Check the PostgreSQL documentation for more details on installing PostgreSQL on Windows and other platforms (Chapter 5 of the Administrators Guide).


Table of Contents
1. Before you start
1.1. Should I compile or use a binary (RPM, DEB) ?
2. Compiling and Installing the best free RDBMS
2.1. Preliminaries
2.2. Optional - How to increase the blocksize in PostgreSQL [1]
2.3. Compiling and installing
2.4. Getting it to start with every boot
2.5. Testing
3. Installing Binary Packages
3.1. RPMs
3.2. DEBs
4. Acknowledgements