HOWTO use the PostgreSQL server in few steps by Christian Belisle <cbelisle@mandrakesoft.com> This file is included with the Mandrake PostgreSQL's packages. After you installed the packages, here is the procedure to start quickly but nicely. 1- Become root user on your machine. (su) 2- Become postgres user. (su postgres) 3- Create a user (createuser) 4- Be sure that the postmaster is running (service postgresql status) 5- Logout from the postgres and the root account. 6- Test it. (psql -U [username])