Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Oracle Solaris

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. ;-)

Thank you.

>
> regards, tom lane