we installed postgres on machines with debian / kernel 2.2 / jdk 1.3 (blackdown),
make sure you don't have postgresql installed via debian / apt-get. if you do
-purge the installation. the following things have to be down as superuser.
+purge the installation.
+
+make sure you have libreadline-dev package installed, otherwise you won't be
+able to use cursor/backspace in psql-shell.
+
+the following things have to be done as superuser (if not otherwise stated):
1. get the tarball from postgresql.org
3. configure
-./configure --enable-odbc --enable-syslog --with-perl --enable-multibyte=UNICODE --enable-locale --enable-unicode-conversion --enable-recode --with-java
+ ./configure --enable-odbc --enable-syslog --with-perl --enable-multibyte=UNICODE \
+ --enable-locale --enable-unicode-conversion --enable-recode --with-java
4. make