Re: Help me start postmaster on a default installation of PostgreSQL.

Thanks for taking interest Kevin.

Here's a re-statement of my problem:

What I'm trying to achieve:-
To run postmaster service, so that I can access database using JDBC. I 
am a student learning Java and I don't want a very customized setup. 
Anything that's sufficient for demo programs will do.

EXACT PostgreSQL version:-
PostgreSQL 8.4.8 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.4.real 
(Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5, 32-bit

I downloaded PostgreSQL package from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ 
maverick-updates/main i386 Packages. That's the maverick-updates repository.

Changes made to the settings in the postgresql.conf file: None

OS details:
Ubuntu 10.10
Linux 2.6.35-30-generic





As per your suggestion giving the command

sudo service postgresql-8.4 start


results in
postgresql-8.4: unrecognized service


Actually I did start the server using pgAdminIII. I read about that 
somewhere.

Please help me 'coz I'm trying hard without any success. Most of the 
reference materials/tutorials I've looked up refer to folders that don't 
even exist on my system (eg. /usr/local/pgsql).