6.1. Installing PostgreSQL on Unix
In general two ways of installing PostgreSQL are available. On the one hand, it is possible to install precompiled binaries that are available for the most widespread Unix systems. On the other hand, it is possible to install and compile the source code of PostgreSQL. Both methods are covered extensively in this section.
6.1.1. Installing Binaries
Installing binary packages is in most cases much more comfortable than installing the source code of PostgreSQL because it can be done much faster and it's difficult to do something wrong. Binaries are available for all major Linux distributions such as Red Hat and Mandrake.
In this section you will learn to deal with PostgreSQL binaries on Linux Debian and Linux Red ...
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