Comment 7 for bug 162517

First: Thanks for the hints. I could start postgres and get webmin to show databases.
Re. your questions:

1. Yes there are symlinks in the rc?.d directories. They point to /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 (which exists)
2. Initially I have tried to remove and reinstall postgresql
3. I am going on from here (postgresql and addons installed) and try to fix the problem here

Question: Should postgres database should be launched after installing the package or is there some preconfiguration required (there is no documentation about this available)