Re: Compiling/Installing as a non-admin user

You are talking about /usr/local/data; so I assume that you are trying this
on Linux or some other Nixen.

You just need to use the --prefix option to configure... Here's what I
typically do:

Download/'CVS checkout' the sources. Enter the source directory, and invoke
configure like this:

./configure --enable-debug --prefix `pwd`/db CFLAGS=-O0

And the run 'make' and 'make install'. This will install the data in your
<sources_dir>/db/data.

HTH...

Regards,

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On 11/1/06, Ritesh Nadhani <riteshn(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello All
>
> Me and my professor are planning to work upon machine learning in
> postgresql over tsearch2. So I have some questions:
>
> We have a server where Postgresql is running without any problem with
> postgres username and admin rights. I have a user account in that
> server. I plan to compile and run another postgresql for our testing so
> I was thinking of how to do that? My prior knowledge of using postgresql
> has always been as admin where I have full rights.
>
> 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.
>
> So I would like to compile and run postgresql as a normal user with
> every thing like data kept in my usr directory. I should be able to run
> the instance over separate port and can start and stop it.
>
> Basically, I want to run the server as in user mode....
>
> How should I configure the MAKE and INSTALL in this circumstances? What
> are your suggestions....
>
> Ritesh
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