On 06.11.24 22:58, PG Doc comments form wrote:
The 'short' script can then be rewritten as
```
# work done as a regular user
./configure
make build
# work that requires ROOT access
su
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
chown (current user):(current group) /usr/local/pgsql
adduser --system --group postgres
exit
# work that requires POSTGRES access
su -u postgres
make install installdirs
exit
We don't want the installed files to be owned by postgres. That would
mean that a compromised PostgreSQL server (running as "postgres") could
overwrite its own installation files. You don't have to use "root" for
the installation, of course, but it should be separate from "postgres".
