Re: installation of postgres 10.6

I am learning myself too, and I was successful to install postgres binary as root and yes you are still needed to create postgres os user to run postgres db as same as oracle and mysql  Make sure all the libraries are downloaded.
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On Monday, February 11, 2019 1:38 PM, Pavan Kumar <pavan(dot)dba27(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

Hello Experts,
I am very new to postgres database technology and trying to learn Postgres administration  now.
I have couple of questions on installation.
I am trying to install postgres from source code and following below document https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/install-getsource.html
here are my question.
1. Which user i need to install postgres (root) or do  i need to create a separate user for postgres?
Kindly advise.
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