In order to install this package, you must *first* create a user/group called pgsql, which PostgreSQL will run as. Locally, I've used the following commands: > groupadd pgsql > useradd -d /usr/local/pgsql -m -c "PostgreSQL Admin" -g pgsql pgsql After that is created, uncompress the package using 'gunzip ' and then install using 'pkgadd -d ' ... Once installed, su to the new user you created above to perform the initialization procedures, as follows (please note this assumes you are using [t]csh, not [ba]sh): > set path = ( $path /usr/local/pgsql/bin ) > initdb --pglib=/usr/local/pgsql/lib --pgdata=/usr/local/pgsql/data At this point, you should be ready to start up the daemon itself, and begin work. On my machines, I use a simple script, as follows: ==================================================================== #!/bin/tcsh setenv HOMEDIR /usr/local/pgsql ${HOMEDIR}/bin/postmaster -o "-F -o ${HOMEDIR}/errout -S 16384" \ -i -p 5432 -D${HOMEDIR}/data & ====================================================================