How to install PostgreSQL binaries on a different directory than the default one

Hello,

On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 22:01 +0000, Allie Crawford wrote:

Hi,
I am new in postgresql and I am trying to install PostgreSQL on Linux
server but instead of using the default location for the binaries I
want to install them in a different directory.
I have research for a while and I cannot find any information on how
to do that using the dnf utility which is what the PostgreSQL website
gives me as instruction when I go the download page.
 
I have a directory called /pg01 that I want to use to install the
binaries. The postgreSQL download site (
https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ ) gives me the
following steps to install the binaries:
 
 
That set of instructions shown right above, installs the binaries
under the/usr/pgsql-13, and what I want is to install the binaries
under /pg01 instead of /usr.
My question is, what are the changes I need to do in the instructions
detailed right above, so that I can get the binary installation under
the /pg01 directory instead of the default /usr directory.
 
Thanks in advance for any help you can five me on this.
 
Regards,
Allie

Most Linux distros keep the binaries by major version. So when you
install version 14 it will go into /usr/pgsql-14.
Thus, by using different port numbers you can run multiple versions on
the same box.
Useful for development, QA, etc.

HTH,
Robert

Why not use the docker container?

Thanks,
Ben

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 8:25 PM rob stone <floriparob@gmail.com> wrote: