Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Oracle Solaris

On 3/23/19 8:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> igor@solaris:/usr$ sudo bunzip2 < postgresql-9.6.1-S11.i386-64.tar.bz2
>>>>> | tar xpf -
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 9:25 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Off hand I would say the user you are running as does not have the permissions to unpack the tarball in the
locationyou have selected.
 
> 
>> You mean even running as "sudo"?
> 
> In the above, the "sudo" raises the permissions of the bunzip2 program
> (quite uselessly, AFAICS), while doing nothing for the tar program in
> the other pipe step.  Put the "sudo" in the other pipe step.
> 
> (This is assuming that unpacking straight into /usr is actually what
> you want to do.  I share the doubts of the other responders about
> that being a wise procedure.)

It is what the README says:

https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v9.6.1/solaris/solaris11/i386/

"The files will be installed in directories under
'postgres/9.6-pgdg', so if you install under /usr they will be at
locations similar to any PostgreSQL in Solaris."

> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
> 


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