15.1. Short Version

./configure
gmake
su
gmake install
adduser postgres
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
su - postgres
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test

Because Postgres-XC is composed of multiple database component which runs on different servers, the stop after this has to be done in each server involved manually. For more automated installation step, please see the section on pgxc_config. For manual setup, please see the following sections.

The long version is the rest of this chapter.