PostgreSQL Database Management System

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.

Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.

General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/installation.html.

The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.

Building PostgreSQL

To build PostgreSQL from source, follow these steps:

1. Featch Submoudle: git submodule update --init --recursive
2. Configure: Run ./configure --prefix ${your install path} --enable-debug to prepare the build environment.
3. Compile: Execute make -j${number of cores} to compile the source code.
4. Install: Use sudo make install to install PostgreSQL on your system.

For detailed instructions, refer to the installation documentation.