installation postgres

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 14:10:48 +0100,
  Alain Roger <raf.news at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> using the GUI version of add/remove software from F10 under Gnome i tried to
> install postgresql 8.3.5.
> i can see the client and server package are checked in this GUI version, but
> i do not find any folder where it is installed.

Postgres data is kept in /var/lib/pgsql . A way to check where a package
installs stuff is to use rpm -ql package-name .