Re: Relocatable Binaries (RPMs) : custom installation path for PostgreSQL

Yes, at this moment we are not considering symlinks.

We would like to have the options in RPMs itself.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 3:53 PM Brent Wood <pcreso(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Have you considered symlinking the default paths to where you want it to
> reside?
>
> That approach would allow updates & upgrades to work as they expect,
> without changing default paths or config files.
>
> Much as described here:
>
> https://help.cloud66.com/rails/how-to-guides/databases/shells/change-psql-directory.html
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brent Wood
>
> ------------------------------
>
> On 12/31/18 8:19 AM, chiru r wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I wanted to install the PostgreSQL-11 Software with Custom
> > installation/binary paths.
> >
> > Currently I am using EDB one click installer software with option file
> > like below to achieve, However EDB stopped and no longer provides one
> > click installer for Linux.
> >
> > *Example:*
> >
> > PostgreSQL install software file : *postgresql-9.6.9-1-linux-x64.run*
> >
> > *cat Optionsfile.txt*
> > mode=unattended
> > datadir=/u02/pgdata01/9.6/data
> > serverport=5432
> > prefix=/u01/postgres/9.6
> > I have installed CommunityPostgreSQL RPMs and are going into
> > "/usr/pgsql-11/" by default.
> >
>
> > #-> pwd
> > /usr/pgsql-11
> >
> > [root(at)user:/usr/pgsql-11]#
> >
> > #-> ls -l
> > total 16
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 13:49 bin
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 13:49 doc
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 13:49 lib
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 21 13:49 share
> >
> > Please let us know how to get the PostgreSQL-11 installed in above
> > custom paths using RPMs? .
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chiranjeevi
> >
>
>