17.1. Requirements #

In general, a modern Unix-compatible platform should be able to run PostgreSQL™. The platforms that had received specific testing at the time of release are described in Section 17.6 below.

The following software packages are required for building PostgreSQL™:

The following packages are optional. They are not required in the default configuration, but they are needed when certain build options are enabled, as explained below:

If you need to get a GNU package, you can find it at your local GNU mirror site (see https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp for a list) or at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/.