Re: Compiling/Installing as a non-admin user

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ritesh Nadhani <riteshn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Compiling/Installing as a non-admin user
Date: 2006-11-01 08:12:33
Message-ID: 20061101081233.GJ12008@alvh.no-ip.org
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Ritesh Nadhani wrote:

> As I see, using the default MAKE for postgresql will set the data
> directory etc. in /usr/local/data etc which I dont have access to as a user.

Specify the --prefix=DIR argument to configure, pointing to a directory
you can write (presumably within your $HOME). You can also pick a port
with --with-port=NNN if you need it.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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