PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) based on POSTGRES. With more than 15 years of development history, it is quickly becoming the de facto database for enterprise level open source solutions. Homepage: http://www.postgresql.org This script builds postgresql with a couple of useful features in the contrib directory. adminpack - File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin by Dave Page tsearch2 - Full-text-index support using GiST by Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov . Since ver. 8.3 tsearch2 is directly supported by PostgreSQL This contrib module is now a compatibility layer. Run # TSEARCH2_COMPAT=no ./postgresql.SlackBuild if you don't need it. Before you can run postgresql you'll need to create the database files in /var/lib/pgsql. The following should do the trick. # su postgres -c "initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data" Additionally, a logrotation script is added to /etc/logrotate.d/ and an rc.postgresql script is added. In order to activate postgresql at boot time and shut it down properly upon system shutdown, add the following lines to the following files. /etc/rc.d/rc.local ================== # Startup postgresql if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql start fi /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown =========================== # Stop postgres if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql stop fi Additionally, you'll have to set the rc script to be executable just like any other Slackware rc script. # chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql