PostgreSQL Database Management System
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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For the initial configuration before make, using the following saves a lot of sweat later on, to go and edit a lot of things in the postgresql.conf file.

./configure --prefix=/home/bhavesh/pgsql --with-pgport=9432 --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo --enable-debug --enable-cassert --enable-depend

Here, /home/bhavesh/pgsql is my postgres installation directory.

It is also useful to export the variable PGDATA

EXPORT PGDATA=/home/bhavesh/pgsql/data

GENERAL INFORMATION
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This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.