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This documentation is for an unsupported version of PostgreSQL.
You may want to view the same page for thecurrent version, or one of the other supported versions listed above instead.

./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/postgres -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.