Re: PGSQL on shared hosting

Hiya,

Without wanting to get flamed for gratuitous advertising, my company 
offers shared hosting with PostgreSQL 7.4.  I'll leave it at that.

Apologies in advance to anyone I've offended.

Regards

Tony.

Francois Suter wrote:

>> i am a newbie to the pgsql world, so pls bear with a possibly stupid
>> question. i want to test out pgsql but i only have a shared hosting
>> account. is it possible to install pgsql without root access, only 
>> for my
>> account? my webhost uses redhat i think.
>
>
> No. The "make install" step requires a root access.
>
> Your best chance is to find a shared hosting which offers PostgreSQL 
> rather than MySQL. There are some. Not many, but some...
>
> Good luck.
>
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