I have now studied how postgresql is installed on Ubuntu, and found that
there are a number of commands not documented in the official PostgreSQL
documentation, among those: pg_createcluster, which is a wrapper for
initdb. When I found out how to use these commands, I was able to solve
my problem.
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: postgresql
I installed postgresql-8.3 with sudo apt-get install postgresql.
Everything seemed to go OK. The installation process initialized a
database directory (i.e run the initdb command for me), and set up a
configuration file (postgresql.conf). Unfor
