Once you’ve installed PostgreSQL (OS X Instructions) (other platforms), you’ll probably want to get started with a new database. Unfortunately PostgreSQL does not include a sample database by default. You can download the pagila sample database from the pgFoundry (direct download link). Pagila is a simple movie rental database, sort of like what you would get if you ran a video rental store. It is also a port of a sample MySQL database with changes made to take advantage of PostgreSQL’s features – you can read about the differences in the README file. Installing pagila is easy: createdb -U jeremiah pagila
psql -U jeremiah -f pagila-schema.sql pagila
# There will be a great deal of text here about creating tables and other database
# objects. You can read through the create file if you'd like, but we're going to be
# taking a look around so you can hold off for a minute
psql -U jeremiah -f pagila-insert-data.sql pagila
# You should see a lot of output from psql again talking about inserting rows
# and altering seqvals. Once again, we'll be looking at this data over Read more: Jeremiah Peschka
psql -U jeremiah -f pagila-schema.sql pagila
# There will be a great deal of text here about creating tables and other database
# objects. You can read through the create file if you'd like, but we're going to be
# taking a look around so you can hold off for a minute
psql -U jeremiah -f pagila-insert-data.sql pagila
# You should see a lot of output from psql again talking about inserting rows
# and altering seqvals. Once again, we'll be looking at this data over Read more: Jeremiah Peschka
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