I've always found the best way to learn a new technology in general is to have a problem to solve with it. Instead of trying to learn Postgres itself, try to d

I've always found the best way to learn a new technology in general is to have a problem to solve with it. Instead of trying to learn Postgres itself, try to do the following: 1) Get it installed and running 2) Write a schema for something (blog, billing system). Look through Postgres's documentation on types. 3) Get a role created for accessing the schema and update the hba config file to let your user access the schema from whatever servers you need to. Postgres is pretty well documented, google "Postgres Whatever" will usually bring you to a postgres documentation page, for instance to understand the types 'Postgres data types' first result is: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype.html