Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Oracle Solaris

Hi, ALL,

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:32 PM Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:42 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > >>>> igor(at)solaris:/usr$ sudo bunzip2 < postgresql-9.6.1-S11.i386-64.tar.bz2
> > >>>> | tar xpf -
> >
> > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 9:25 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > >> Off hand I would say the user you are running as does not have the permissions to unpack the tarball in the location you have selected.
> >
> > > You mean even running as "sudo"?
> >
> > In the above, the "sudo" raises the permissions of the bunzip2 program
> > (quite uselessly, AFAICS), while doing nothing for the tar program in
> > the other pipe step. Put the "sudo" in the other pipe step.
> >
> > (This is assuming that unpacking straight into /usr is actually what
> > you want to do. I share the doubts of the other responders about
> > that being a wise procedure.)
>
> Well, as I said I don't need a server - I just need libpq.
> So I didn't really care where to install it. ;-)

I am sorry to say this, but unfortunately I will have to build it from sources.
It looks like the binary package I downloaded were built with the gcc
and I'm trying
to build my software with the Oracle DevStudio.

Thank you all and sorry for wasting everybody's time.

>
> Thank you.
>
> >
> > regards, tom lane