It turns out that I have to create database myself. I decided to install postgresql on my ubuntu server, and dump treebase data into it.

To install postgresql 8.3 on Ubuntu 9.04, basically I followed the steps in this article. Although the author was addressing an earlier version of Ubuntu (8.04), I found the steps are still correct.

http://hocuspokus.net/2008/05/install-postgresql-on-ubuntu-804

This post is based on postgresql 8.1. It also shows how to make the current user a superuser.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

I also installed pgadmin3 on another ubuntu box where I have a ubuntu desktop installed. I found that in order to access the server remotely, I have to do the following on the server:

1. Add port 5432 to the allowed list
2. Give user a password. Do something like

<code>sudo su postgres -c psql 
=# ALTER USER myusername WITH PASSWORD 'password';
=# \q
</code>