Basic Installation for EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials v6

Preparing to use EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials is easy. You can get started in a few minutes. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up your environment and start using EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials.

If you are looking for a quick start, you can use the EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials Quickstart guide which will shows how to bring up a PGD Essentials cluster locally, using Docker, for development and testing purposes. This is a great way to get started with PGD Essentials and see how it works.

Here we will show you how to install EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials on a Linux system. This is a more traditional installation method and is the basis for for production use installations.

This guide will help you get up and running quickly with EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials on multiple nodes.

Prerequisites

Installing the PGD Essentials repositories

Installing the PGD Essentials packages

Initializing each PGD Essentials node

Starting the PGD Essentials nodes

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