Re: How to run PostgreSQL?

On May 7, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Ray Stell wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:38:59AM -0700, Jan Muhammad wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just downloaded, installed/configured postgresql version
>> 8.2.11 on Fedora Core 6. While reading through the installation
>> manual have setup most of its parts; now while trying to run
>> datebase server with the command:??
>> $ postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>


Doesn't it come with the package manager and can't you not run it from
init.d?
If not, read the installation tutorial that comes with the source. But
I hope you don't compile 8.2.11 now from source, right?

Ries