On 06.02-12:40, Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67 wrote: > [ ... ] > > We are considering having postgres 8.2 on solaris 10 machine for our > > production environment. While reading through sun docs, it looks like > > the solaris 10 update 6 onwards comes with the postgres 8.2 installed > > under /usr/postgres/8.2 . My question is can we have postgres binaries > > > under a different location like /usr/local/a01 ( shared home ). I know > > > I can install from source and can have postgres binaries where ever I > > want but here we have to use sun compiled postgres binaries in order > > to get support. So is there an option during solaris install to have > > postgres installed in a different location. Any help will be highly > > appreciated. > > short answer is no but you shouldn't need to move the binaries and > libraries in order to move the database. if you explain why that's a > requirement i'll put some more thought into it (creating a zone in that > location springs to mind but it's not exactly the same thing). [ ... ] > We wanted to have the postgres binaries in shared home. One of the main > requirement for sun cluster is to have the binaries in shared home. hmmm. that's a pain. i would create a zone and leave it inactive. if that was undesired i'd probably get the pre-comiled binaries from sunfreeware and link /usr/local to my shared home. but, to be honest i feel that building from source is by far the best option. -- t t w ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match