PostgreSQL: Setup on the Local Machine

Setting up a local environment

We’re providing you with an execution environment with PostgreSQL running. If you want to later practice on your own machine, you will need a database server to play along with.

• If you’re using MacOSX, check out Postgres App to install a PostgreSQL server and the psql tool.

• For Windows, check this link.

• If you’re mainly running Linux, you know what you’re doing already, right? Look at the PostgreSQL packages for Debian and Ubuntu and install the most recent version of PostgreSQL on your station so that you have something to play with locally. For Red Hat packaging-based systems, check this out.

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