./configure make su make 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/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
The long version is the rest of this chapter.