Installing PostgreSQL without Root

Owned by Indy Siva
Last updated: Oct 27, 2017
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Introduction

The only way to install Postgres without root privileges, in home directory, is to compile it from sources. That’s not very difficult.

Usage

See below for installation
psql --version

 

Installation

mkdir -p /export/home/YOURSNUMBER/sw/PostgresSQL/src
cd /export/home/YOURSNUMBER/sw/PostgresSQL/src
wget https://github.com/postgres/postgres/archive/master.zip

module load gcc/6.3.0
module load library/zlib/1.2.11
module load python/3.6.1

unzip master.zip
cd /export/home/YOURSNUMBER/sw/PostgresSQL/src/postgres-master

./configure --prefix=/export/home/YOURSNUMBER/sw/PostgresSQL/ --with-python PYTHON=/sw/python/3.6.1/bin/python  2>&1 | tee ConfigureLog.txt
make -j 4 2>&1 | tee MakeLog.txt
make install  2>&1 | tee MakeInstallLog.txt

 

Create database

~/sw/PostgresSQL/bin/initdb -D ~/sw/PostgresSQL/data/

Start database server:
~/sw/PostgresSQL/bin/postgres -D ~/sw/PostgresSQL/data/
OR:
~/sw/PostgresSQL/bin/pg_ctl -D ~/sw/PostgresSQL/data/ -l logfile start

~/sw/PostgresSQL/bin/psql --version
~/sw/PostgresSQL/bin/psql -U YOURSNUMBER postgres
postgres=# select version();
postgres=# show data_directory ;

 

Reference

 

  1. http://blog.endpoint.com/2013/06/installing-postgresql-without-root.html