Adrian von Bidder <avbid...@fortytwo.ch> writes: > Thanks for all your answers. I was just a bit confused because when I write > stuff for myself I usually set up stuff to run directly in the build > environment, so I was expecting something like that to be available. But > make install into ~/pg will do fine as well. (I want to avoid having my > trashed version version be available systemwide...)
No, nobody installs test versions into "real" locations. What you want is to set an install spot with configure --prefix. For instance, I usually do configure --prefix=/home/tgl/testversion --enable-debug --enable-cassert Be sure to add $PREFIX/bin to your PATH so that you can call the test-installation programs conveniently. It's also often a good idea to specify a non-default port number using --with-pgport so that you can run your test postmaster concurrently with a regular one. Lastly, setting PGDATA in your environment to a suitable test database location will save typing and avoid mistakes. As Peter mentioned, most of us have scripts to set up a preferred working environment of this sort. I think I've published mine at least once ... check the archives. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers