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

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.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thiagarajan Lakshminarayanan" <thiagu1997(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Monday, 21 May, 2018 09:23:28
Subject: 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
approach, created a new PostgreSQL instance and it is working fine. Please
let me know if there would be any issues with the above approach?

Thanks
Raj