Installing PostgreSQL
Now that you know how a typical PostgreSQL installation is arranged on disk, it's time to actually create a typical installation. In the next few sections, I'll show you how to install PostgreSQL on Unix/Linux hosts and on Windows hosts. In either environment, you can install PostgreSQL from prebuilt installation packages, or you can compile PostgreSQL from source code to create a fully customized installation.
Unix/Linux
PostgreSQL was originally written for Unix, so you will find that installing PostgreSQL on a Unix host is very easy. Installing PostgreSQL on a Linux host is even easier because of the availability of prebuilt distributions.
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