Getting The Source

The PostgreSQL™ 9.4.1 sources can be obtained from the download section of our website: http://www.postgresql.org/download/. You should get a file named postgresql-9.4.1.tar.gz or postgresql-9.4.1.tar.bz2. After you have obtained the file, unpack it:

gunzip postgresql-9.4.1.tar.gz
tar xf postgresql-9.4.1.tar

(Use bunzip2 instead of gunzip if you have the .bz2 file.) This will create a directory postgresql-9.4.1 under the current directory with the PostgreSQL™ sources. Change into that directory for the rest of the installation procedure.

You can also get the source directly from the version control repository, see Appendix I, The Source Code Repository.