Hello, I am sorry I wasn't attentive enough when this issue was discussed a few months back. Now I can't find the right keywords to get to it in the archives. I need to automate the procedure of getting a fresh postgresql source, building and installing everything that it needs to run within a user's home directory. The user is not supposed to have root privileges, and he is not supposed to be DBMS and even UNIX-literate. The client processes will run locally by a web server (no external TCP/IP connections will be needed) and each of these will take care about starting the postmaster if it is not running for some reason. Also, I would like to avoid having a special postgres user on the system. This kind of installation is mainly intended to support search and retrieval and will require little or no update at all. As far as I can see now, it is enough to substitute "postgres" with a user name of choice. I did not find relevant options in configure. Could someone please point me to the right place or indicate what other problems I may need to solve? Thank you, Gene
