As we said before, it's very likely that a system with the vendor-supplied PostgreSQL packages provides packages for PgBouncer. These versions are likely to install to the expected directories; they include initialization scripts and basic working configuration files.
In case we want or need to install PgBouncer ourselves, the process is a bit more involved. Assuming that we downloaded a version from the PgBouncer project page, we start the process by extracting the source from the archive, and then enter the resulting directory to perform the necessary installation steps.
The first of these steps is to compile the source into binaries and libraries. PostgreSQL supplies a tool named pg_config that lists all of the flags and ...
