Pg ctl - Single Directory Postgres

Download Binaries

• https://www.enterprisedb.com/download-postgresql-binaries or source
• https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v13.3/
• https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_from_source_code

A simple example

download(){
  sudo apt-get install build-essential libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev flex bison libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libssl-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc
  curl -LO https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v13.3/postgresql-13.3.tar.gz
  tar xf postgresql-13.3.tar.gz
  install_prefix=/pgtest1/pgsql
  mkdir -p $install_prefix
}

compile(){
  ./configure
  make
}

install(){
  su
  make install prefix=$install_prefix
  adduser postgres
}

initdb(){
  mkdir -p $install_prefix/data
  chown -R postgres $install_prefix/data
  sudo -u postgres $install_prefix/bin/initdb -D $install_prefix/data
  sudo -u postgres $install_prefix/bin/pg_ctl -D $install_prefix/data -l $install_prefix/logfile start -o "-F -p 5433"

}

testdb(){
  # sudo -u postgres $install_prefix/bin/createdb test
  # sudo -u postgres $install_prefix/bin/psql test
  $install_prefix/bin/psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433 -c "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS foo;"
  $install_prefix/bin/psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433 -c "CREATE DATABASE foo;"
  # psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433 -c "SELECT schema_name FROM information_schema.schemata;"
  # psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433 -c "SELECT nspname FROM pg_catalog.pg_namespace;;"
  $install_prefix/bin/psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433 -c "\l"
  # pg_dumpall -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433
}

download
compile
install
initdb
testdb

Download and init from binaries on Linux

curl --output pgsql.tar.gz -L https://sbp.enterprisedb.com/getfile.jsp?fileid=1257664&_ga=2.131528655.1318609253.1625964422-1196070153.1625964422
tar xf pgsql.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /pg2
cp -rp pgsql /pg2/
sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /pg2
cd /pg2
sudo -u postgres pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D busk init
sudo -u postgres pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D busk -l logfile start -o "-F -p 5434"
pgsql/bin/pg_dumpall -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5434
pgsql/bin/psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5434

Run

sudo -u postgres mkdir /pg
cd /pg
sudo -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/12/bin/pg_ctl -D busk init
sudo -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/12/bin/pg_ctl -D busk -l logfile start -o "-F -p 5433"
psql -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433
pg_dumpall -U postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433