Re: Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs

: (+51) 995540103 | (+51) 954183248 Web: www.ocs.pe - Original Message - From: "Thiagarajan Lakshminarayanan" To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org Sent: Monday, 21 May, 2018 09:23:28 Subject: Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs Hell

Re: Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs

Thiagarajan Lakshminarayanan writes: > 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? What exactly is your purpose here? Is it just that you want to r

Re: Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs

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.

Re: Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs

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

Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs

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