On Sun, 17 May 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Andy Lewis wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not totall sure but, I wouldn't think that user postgres has enough system
> > > rights to install.
> >
> > You should be root when doing the actual software installation to
> > /usr/local, but everything else should be done as the postgres user.
>
> Why? Once you've added the postgres user, with his home
> directory, the postgres users himself should be able to do the complete
> install...
I've installed it both ways:
* As root, when installing under /usr/local
* As postgres, when installing under /home/postgres
The only thing I have yet to find how to setup without root, is starting
the postmaster when the system boots.
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