Install 16/stable of PostgreSQL
Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
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PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 20 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.
Install the snap
If you are an Ubuntu user, snapd is pre-installed and ready to go on all recent Ubuntu releases. Simply click on the drop-down menu at the upper right-hand corner of this page, select your channel of choice (e.g. 16/stable), and paste the command in your terminal, e.g.:
sudo snap install postgresql
If you are not using Ubuntu, scroll further down this page to find installation instructions for other distributions.
Use the snap
Once installed, PostgreSQL will start automatically. To log in, run:
postgresql.psql -U postgres -h /tmp
It is highly recommended to set a new password in the postgres console:
\password postgres
For convenience, the snap alias psql is pre-created:
psql -U postgres -h /tmp
See more PostgreSQL snap documentation on GitHub: https://github.com/canonical/postgresql-snap/blob/16/edge/docs
Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation.
