Should work with no problem, but I would not recommend it. You may not be able to setup a service(SysV or systemd) to automatically start postgres, and updating version could be troublesome. Regards, Alvaro Aguayo Operations Manager Open Comb Systems E.I.R.L. Office: (+51-1) 3377813 | Mobile: (+51) 995540103 | (+51) 954183248 Web: www.ocs.pe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thiagarajan Lakshminarayanan" <thiagu1997@xxxxxxxxx> To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, 21 May, 2018 09:23:28 Subject: Installing PostgreSQL as non-root by Extracting the binaries from RPMs 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
