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<!--
This file contains the stand-alone installation instructions that end up in
the INSTALL file. This document stitches together parts of the installation
instructions in the main documentation with some material that only appears
in the stand-alone version.
-->
<article id="installation">
<title><productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Installation from Source Code</title>
<!-- This text replaces the introductory text of installation.sgml -->
<para>
This document describes the installation of
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> using this source code distribution.
</para>
<para>
If you are building <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> for Microsoft
Windows, read this document if you intend to build with MinGW or Cygwin;
but if you intend to build with Microsoft's <productname>Visual
C++</productname>, see the main documentation instead.
</para>
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<sect1 id="install-getting-started">
<title>Getting Started</title>
<para>
The following is a quick summary of how to get <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> up and
running once installed. The main documentation contains more information.
</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>
Create a user account for the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
server. This is the user the server will run as. For production
use you should create a separate, unprivileged account
(<quote>postgres</quote> is commonly used). If you do not have root
access or just want to play around, your own user account is
enough, but running the server as root is a security risk and
will not work.
<screen><userinput>adduser postgres</userinput></screen>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Create a database installation with the <command>initdb</command>
command. To run <command>initdb</command> you must be logged in to your
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server account. It will not work as
root.
<screen>root# <userinput>mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data</userinput>
root# <userinput>chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data</userinput>
root# <userinput>su - postgres</userinput>
postgres$ <userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</userinput></screen>
</para>
<para>
The <option>-D</option> option specifies the location where the data
will be stored. You can use any path you want, it does not have
to be under the installation directory. Just make sure that the
server account can write to the directory (or create it, if it
doesn't already exist) before starting <command>initdb</command>, as
illustrated here.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
At this point, if you did not use the <command>initdb</command> <literal>-A</literal>
option, you might want to modify <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> to control
local access to the server before you start it. The default is to
trust all local users.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
The previous <command>initdb</command> step should have told you how to
start up the database server. Do so now. The command should look
something like:
<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
To stop a server running in the background you can type:
<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data stop</programlisting>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Create a database:
<screen><userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb testdb</userinput></screen>
Then enter:
<screen><userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql testdb</userinput></screen>
to connect to that database. At the prompt you can enter SQL
commands and start experimenting.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="install-whatnow">
<title>What Now?</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> distribution contains a
comprehensive documentation set, which you should read sometime.
After installation, the documentation can be accessed by
pointing your browser to
<filename>/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/index.html</filename>, unless you
changed the installation directories.
</para>
<para>
The first few chapters of the main documentation are the Tutorial,
which should be your first reading if you are completely new to
<acronym>SQL</acronym> databases. If you are familiar with database
concepts then you want to proceed with part on server
administration, which contains information about how to set up
the database server, database users, and authentication.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Usually, you will want to modify your computer so that it will
automatically start the database server whenever it boots. Some
suggestions for this are in the documentation.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Run the regression tests against the installed server (using
<command>make installcheck</command>). If you didn't run the
tests before installation, you should definitely do it now. This
is also explained in the documentation.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
By default, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is configured to run on
minimal hardware. This allows it to start up with almost any
hardware configuration. The default configuration is, however,
not designed for optimum performance. To achieve optimum
performance, several server parameters must be adjusted, the two
most common being <varname>shared_buffers</varname> and
<varname>work_mem</varname>.
Other parameters mentioned in the documentation also affect
performance.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect1>
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</article>
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