Holger Klawitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No. The "make install" step requires a root access.
> Wrong! If you install into a writeable directory e.g. > ./configure --prefix=/home/user/postgres > make install will work just fine (or at least it did with me). > The only problem is that you cannot start postgres automatially that > easily at boot time. Correct. AFAIK, you have to be root to set up any init-script action. You can easily build, install, and run PG in a personal directory (I do that all the time for testing purposes) but you couldn't really use it as a full-time server because it'd need to be manually restarted after any system reboot. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster