Re: Cluster in users home

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 05:22, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed pgsql on debian. Can i have initdb create
> the database cluster in my home directory and have it all
> owned by russell instead of postgres?

If you built your own: certainly.

If you installed the Debian package: yes, but the installation assumes a
postmaster running as user postgres and the database cluster in a
system-configured location.  You would need to run your own version with
a different port number (not the default, 5432) so as not to conflict
with the system's version.  You would also need to make
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin part of your path, since some of the executables
are not linked to /usr/bin because they are assumed to be for the
postgres user only.
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