I respectfully disagree. After reading the "Getting Started" guide, you might reasonably believe a developer would be setup and happily coding away, but in my e

I respectfully disagree. After reading the "Getting Started" guide, you might reasonably believe a developer would be setup and happily coding away, but in my experience it fails at the very first steps. Which is fine, if you want to keep a high bar, but don't be surprised when people still think the product is "harder to use" than MongoDB or whatever in 2015. Blaming maintainers does nothing for the users, take ownership of the experience! If you want to be seen as approachable and easy to use, you have to actually target people new to PostgreSQL and not write the basic guide assuming you're compiling from source on Solaris or have a dedicated site DB administrator. The magic phrase "sudo -u postgres createdb" does not appear anywhere on postgresql.org that I can see, and as a experienced user you know that's not the end of it (can I use psql as my regular user after running it? No, of course not. There's many more entirely undocumented arcane incantations left!). I claim, it is in fact impossible to get up an running with no previous knowledge if all you have access to is the postgres site. Thankfully there's Stackoverflow, so at least some users are still getting through the gauntlet. Sorry for the rant. I get a bit frustrated when I see a great project that I love dropping users through a bad onboarding experience (I know, contributions welcome...) Just for reference, check out: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/ https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-... https://docs.mongodb.org/getting-started/node/ https://docs.mongodb.org/getting-started/node/ In fact, you get different sets of documentations for the whole matrix of OS * ENV (Shell, Node, Python, C++, Java, C#). When the docs have their target audience down to a T ("Why yes, I AM a C++ developer on OS X! This looks like the perfect fit!"), it's easy to see why they're so popular.