Postgres 14 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

by R. S. Doiel, 2022-08-26

This is just a quick set of notes for working with Postgres 14 on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machine. The goal is to setup Postgres 14 and have it available for personal work under a user account (e.g. jane.doe).

Assumptions

include jane.doe is in the sudo group
jane.doe is the one logged in and installing Postgres for machine wide use
jane.doe will want to work with her own database by default

Steps

Install Postgres
Confirm installation
Add jane.doe user providing access

Below is the commands I typed to run to complete the three steps.

sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
sudo -u createuser --interactive
jane.doe
y

What we’ve accomplished is installing Postgres, we’ve create a user in Postgres DB environment called “jane.doe” and given “jane.doe” superuser permissions, i.e. the permissions to manage Postgres databases.

At this point we have a jane.doe Postgres admin user. This means we can run the psql shell from the Jane Doe account to do any database manager tasks. To confirm I want to list the databases available

psql 
SELECT datname FROM pg_database;
\quit

NOTE: This post is a distilation of what I learned from reading Digital Ocean’s How To Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 22.04 [Quickstart], April 25, 2022 by Alex Garnett.