I am on Unix. I have got postgresql-9.3 installed.
When I want to start the server using pg_ctl or postgres, the terminal gives me:
The program 'postgres' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install postgres-xc
Can't I start the server without this postgres-xc?
This must be remnants of the postgres-xc package you had installed previously.
Since you just installed postgresql-9.3 and don't seem to have any databases in use, yet, I suggest to completely purge all postgres packages.
sudo apt-get purge postgresql-9.2
sudo apt-get purge postgresql-xc
...
Until there's nothing left:
dpkg -l | grep postgres
Then start from scratch. Your instance of pg_ctl seems to belong to the package postgres-xc. This should be gone after you've uninstalled the package. Find out with one of these commands:
dpkg -S pg_ctl
dlocate pg_ctl
apt-file search pg_ctl
pg_ctlcluster is provided by the package postgresql-common.
pg_ctl is provided by the package postgresql-9.3.
Due to reasons a normal install of postgres will not place the postgres binary file in the path.
Adding the right directory to the path solves the problem (temporarily).
PATH=/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin:$PATH
To make it permanent on my Ubuntu machine I added the line to /etc/environment this makes it work for all users.
The correct way to set the PATH is different for different systems, for more info see see:
It is possible you might be missing a few things.
Try:
sudo apt-get install postgresql-client and
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
The message about installing xc is a dud, it's probably suggesting that based on what it scanned inside the xc repositories.
Here's a good reference to this problem and its solution: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/72580/missing-the-pg-ctl-package-in-postgres-9-3-installation
You must install postgresql-client:
sudo install postgresql-client
Try to enter this command to the console:
sudo -u postgres psql
