Installing PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
must be installed on a server machine. Every machine that
runs mrViewer does not need to have PostgreSQL installed, but will
communicate with the server using TCP/IP with a library that ships with
mrViewer.
Installing
PostgreSQL means often downloading a binary executable or the source
code from:
http://www.postgresql.org/
If
you are working on some Unix distribution, you can also probably obtain
a
precompiled version of the database by using your packet manager.
For example, on a Debian distribution, you should be able to
do:
> apt-get install
postgresql
Note: Installing
PostgreSQL on a Windows machine requires the use of an NTFS partition.
Once installed, you may want to log in as
administrator and create an administrative account with permissions to
access the database. Often, this user account is called
"postgres" and may have already been created as part of the
installation of the software. This user should have
permissions to create databases. For more information on how
to do this, refer to the postgreSQL manual.