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

2018-05-21 Thread Alvaro Aguayo Garcia-Rada
Should work with no problem, but I would not recommend it. You may not be able to setup a service(SysV or systemd) to automatically start postgres, and updating version could be troublesome. Regards, Alvaro Aguayo Operations Manager Open Comb Systems E.I.R.L. Office: (+51-1) 3377813 | Mobile:

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

2018-05-21 Thread Tom Lane
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

2018-05-21 Thread Thiagarajan Lakshminarayanan
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

2018-05-21 Thread Benjamin Scherrey
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