Re: executables when upgrading

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 10:58 pm, Jay O'Connor wrote:
> I have some servers to install postgres on.  They already have 7.1 on them
> and I'm installing 7.3.2.  The install for 7.1 put everything in /usr/bin/,
> but the install for 7.3.2 puts everything in /usr/local/pgsql/bin.  Anyway
> to make the install put the binaries in /usr/bin/? Otherwise I just have
> ascript that removes the binaries from /usr/bin/ and replaces them with
> symlinks to the files in /usr/local/pgsql/bin

You can set where various elements of PG are installed when you run
./configure
You can run ./configure --help to get a full list. It's also covered in the
installation instructions of the Administrators Guide (and in the INSTALL
file iirc).
--
  Richard Huxton