The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the release of PostgreSQL 9.1. This latest version of the open source database offers important new features such as synchronous replication, ...

To create a new user, we use the createuser program, which comes with PostgreSQL: createuser -U postgres reuven. This invokes createuser as postgres (which has permission to create other users) and ...

PostgreSQL, commonly called Postgres, was created by database pioneer Michael Stonebraker and became open source in 1996. It is commonly considered an alternative to proprietary Oracle systems.