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Installing PostgreSQL 12 or higher

PostgreSQL can run on several Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, as well as on Microsoft Windows. So far, the most supported platform remains Linux because most PostgreSQL developers work on this platform, and so it is the one with the most tested use cases. However, deploying on other platforms should not present any problems and, most importantly, is not going to put your data at any risk.

This section will focus on installing PostgreSQL 12, since it is the latest stable version available worldwide. You will learn, however, how to build your own version of PostgreSQL, and this may also be the way to install PostgreSQL 13 on your system.

Before installing PostgreSQL 12, you need to choose, or at least evaluate, how to install it. There are two main ways to get PostgreSQL 12 up and running, as follows:

Compiling from sources
Using a binary package

Binary packages are provided by the PostgreSQL community or the operating system, and...

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Authors (2)

Luca Ferrari

Luca Ferrari has been passionate about computer science since the Commodore 64 era, and today holds a master's degree (with honors) and a Ph.D. from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He has written several research papers, technical articles, and book chapters. In 2011, he was named an Adjunct Professor by Nipissing University. An avid Unix user, he is a strong advocate of open source, and in his free time, he collaborates with a few projects. He met PostgreSQL back in release 7.3; he was a founder and former president of the Italian PostgreSQL Community (ITPUG). He also talks regularly at technical conferences and events and delivers professional training.
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Enrico Pirozzi

Enrico Pirozzi, EnterpriseDB certified on implementation management and tuning, with a master's in computer science, has been a PostgreSQL DBA since 2003. Based in Italy, he has been providing database advice to clients in industries such as manufacturing and web development for 10 years. He has been training others on PostgreSQL since 2008. Dedicated to open source technology since early in his career, he is a cofounder of the PostgreSQL Italian mailing list, PostgreSQL-it, and of the PostgreSQL Italian community site, PSQL
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