PostgreSQL® Client Installation

The client installation for PostgreSQL® is the same installation as the PostgreSQL® server installation. The required steps are, however, different. If the server is installed on the same computer as the client, no separate download and setup is required for the client.

To install the PostgreSQL® Client, proceed as follows:

Windows

Download the PostgreSQL® binaries under https://www.postgresql.org/download/. Add the location of the directory with PostgreSQL® binaries (e.g. C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/13/bin directory) to the system environment PATH variable and restart the computer.

When the address of the PostgreSQL® binaries is added to the path variable, you do not need to run the installer and create an instance of the database.

Linux

For Linux a package with client libraries and client binaries which include the "libpq" library is required. For CentOS and Debian "libpq" is already included in the OS files. For download of the different Linux versions and more information, see https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/.