Now that PostgreSQL is installed, you should read the documentation and implementation guides. These can be found at: http://www.PostgreSQL.org/docs You may wish to subscribe to the PostgreSQL user-support mailing list. Send an e-mail to pgsql-questions-request@postgresql.org with the text "subscribe" in the message body. The user pgsql has been created with a home directory of !!PREFIX!!/pgsql. A sample startup script, rc.pgsql, can be found in that directory. Other directories used by PostgreSQL are: executables !!PREFIX!!/bin libraries !!PREFIX!!/lib pgsql lib directory !!PREFIX!!/lib/pgsql include files !!PREFIX!!/include/pgsql man pages !!PREFIX!!/man doc files !!PREFIX!!/share/doc/pgsql database files !!PREFIX!!/pgsql PostgreSQL has a section for SQL man pages. These pages have been installed in !!PREFIX!!/pgsql/man/manl. To access these pages use the command: man -C !!PREFIX!!/pgsql/man.conf man-page If this does not work you must also add !!PREFIX!!/pgsql/man to your MANPATH. If you build PostgreSQL with TCL support you can use the TCL/TK based database frontend "pgaccess" for database operations. See: !!PREFIX!!/pgsql/pgaccess/README.pga for more information on pgaccess.