Re: Postgres 8.2 install on solaris 10

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:05:17 -0500
"Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67" <PBhella(at)Motorola(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Group,
>
> We are considering having postgres 8.2 on solaris 10 machine for our
> production environment. While reading through sun docs, it looks like
> the solaris 10 update 6 onwards comes with the postgres 8.2 installed
> under /usr/postgres/8.2 . My question is can we have postgres binaries
> under a different location like /usr/local/a01 ( shared home ). I
> know I can install from source and can have postgres binaries where
> ever I want but here we have to use sun compiled postgres binaries in
> order to get support. So is there an option during solaris install to
> have postgres installed in a different location. Any help will be
> highly appreciated.

Use a link :)

ln /usr/postgres/8.2/bin /usr/local/a01/pgsql/bin

Joshua D. Drake

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