Re: Compiling/Installing as a non-admin user - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gurjeet Singh
Subject Re: Compiling/Installing as a non-admin user
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Msg-id 65937bea0610312357r3b5171c8y21442077e3a15967@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Compiling/Installing as a non-admin user  (Ritesh Nadhani <riteshn@gmail.com>)
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You are talking about /usr/local/data; so I assume that you are trying this on Linux or some other Nixen.

You just need to use the --prefix option to configure... Here's what I typically do:

Download/'CVS checkout' the sources. Enter the source directory, and invoke configure like this:

./configure --enable-debug --prefix `pwd`/db CFLAGS=-O0

And the run 'make' and 'make install'. This will install the data in your <sources_dir>/db/data.

HTH...

Regards,

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gurjeet[.singh]@EnterpriseDB.com
singh.gurjeet@{ gmail | hotmail | yahoo }.com

On 11/1/06, Ritesh Nadhani <riteshn@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All

Me and my professor are planning to work upon machine learning in
postgresql over tsearch2. So I have some questions:

We have a server where Postgresql is running without any problem with
postgres username and admin rights. I have a user account in that
server. I plan to compile and run another postgresql for our testing so
I was thinking of how to do that? My prior knowledge of using postgresql
has always been as admin where I have full rights.

As I see, using the default MAKE for postgresql will set the data
directory etc. in /usr/local/data etc which I dont have access to as a user.

So I would like to compile and run postgresql as a normal user with
every thing like data kept in my usr directory. I should be able to run
the instance over separate port and can start and stop it.

Basically, I want to run the server as in user mode....

How should I configure the MAKE and INSTALL in this circumstances? What
are your suggestions....

Ritesh

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