Thanks Benjamin. Actually, we don't use Docker in our environment. We just use a standard RHEL OS install. Will there be any issues if I install PostgreSQL by extracting the RPM binaries?
Please let me know. Thanks Raj On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Benjamin Scherrey < scher...@proteus-tech.com> wrote: > You know this is something super easy to do if you do it within Docker. > Advise you to go ahead and map the data directories to the host file system > rather than use a storage container until you get a lot more experience > with Docker. Otherwise it's crazy easy and, in fact, there already exist > Docker images with Postgres installed that you could just download and use. > Postgres will be entirely under local user control and requires no system > level access. > > -- Ben > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Thiagarajan Lakshminarayanan < > thiagu1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> In our environment, our standard RHEL OS install comes with all the >> PostgreSQL required packages / libraries installed. So, can I just extract >> the binaries from PostgreSQL RPMs via rpm2cpio and create a tar file and >> install it as non-root user in an alternate location? I tested the above >> approach, created a new PostgreSQL instance and it is working fine. Please >> let me know if there would be any issues with the above approach? >> >> Thanks >> Raj >> > >
