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

[Rob Sargent <robjsargent@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do Options and One-Click seem oxymoronic to anyone else?

On Jan 1, 2019, at 5:18 PM, chiru r <chirupg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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

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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@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

>