Re: Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs

Thanks Benjamin. Actually, we don't use Docker in our environment. We just
use a standard RHEL OS install. Will there be any issues if I install
PostgreSQL by extracting the RPM binaries?

Please let me know.

Thanks
Raj

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Benjamin Scherrey <
scherrey(at)proteus-tech(dot)com> wrote:

> You know this is something super easy to do if you do it within Docker.
> Advise you to go ahead and map the data directories to the host file system
> rather than use a storage container until you get a lot more experience
> with Docker. Otherwise it's crazy easy and, in fact, there already exist
> Docker images with Postgres installed that you could just download and use.
> Postgres will be entirely under local user control and requires no system
> level access.
>
> -- Ben
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Thiagarajan Lakshminarayanan <
> thiagu1997(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In our environment, our standard RHEL OS install comes with all the
>> PostgreSQL required packages / libraries installed. So, can I just extract
>> the binaries from PostgreSQL RPMs via rpm2cpio and create a tar file and
>> install it as non-root user in an alternate location? I tested the above
>> approach, created a new PostgreSQL instance and it is working fine. Please
>> let me know if there would be any issues with the above approach?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Raj
>>
>
>