I'd start here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html I've always found this documentation

I'd start here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html I've always found this documentation to be great. If you've worked with RDBMS' before, you can skip around the chapters. If not, I'd read up through chapter 14 and go from there. You should be able to easily install it on whatever OS you're running.