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

From: chiru r <chirupg(at)gmail(dot)com>

> I have tried to intall the RPMs with -relocate option,however it is not working as expected and throwing below error.
>
> [root(at)Server1dev:/root/PG11]#
> #-> rpm -ivh --relocate /usr/pgsql-11/=/u01/postgres/pg11_relocate/ postgresql11-server-11.1-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
> warning: postgresql11-server-11.1-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 442df0f8: NOKEY
> Preparing... ################################# [100%]
> path /usr/pgsql-11 in package postgresql11-server-11.1-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 is not relocatable
> [root(at)server1dev:/root/PG11]#

Then you'll probably have to get the source from the Pg download area and compile it yourself and use "--prefix=/u01/postgres/pg11_relocate/" as an arg to the "configure" command. It's not hard, the process is well documented. We do this and 1 reason is to have it install into /opt, although we also compile it ourselves so we know what's going into the install.

It's either that or let it install where it wants to and then put a symlink in the place you want it, as someone else suggested.

HTH,
Kevin
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