On Sun, 17 May 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Andy Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not totall sure but, I wouldn't think that user postgres has enough system
> > > rights to install.
> > 
> > You should be root when doing the actual software installation to
> > /usr/local, but everything else should be done as the postgres user.
> 
>       Why?  Once you've added the postgres user, with his home
> directory, the postgres users himself should be able to do the complete
> install...

I've installed it both ways:

 * As root, when installing under /usr/local
 * As postgres, when installing under /home/postgres

The only thing I have yet to find how to setup without root, is starting
the postmaster when the system boots.

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