Re: Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version
Date: 2010-02-26 07:47:46
Message-ID: 20100226074745.GE11413@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Wang, Mary Y :
> Thanks Andreas for the info. I'm working on a development server right now, and currently I don't have any data loaded yet. As matter of fact, I was trying to load the database data from a dump file that generated by "pg_dump".
> Here is the thing:
> I've a /usr/bin/initdb -> this is probably from version 7.3 and other postgres related executable files.
> I've a /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -> this is probably from version 8.3.8. I think all the postgres related executable files are located in this directory. I like this organization much better in 8.3.8.
> My question is what files should I delete from /usr/bin directory? Is there an automatic way to uninstall a particular version? I want to delete the 7.3 version and don't want to have multiple versions of postgres running on the same server.
> If there is not an automatic way, then I can probably remove files like initdb, dropdb, createdb, psql and etc from the /usr/bin directory.
> Or may be just specify the path when I run the initdb command "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb" (other wise it would use /usr/bin/initdb)
>
> Any thoughts?

I'm not familiar with RH, maybe someone else can better help you. But i
think, you should use the packaging system, RPM, for software-(de)installation.

Andreas
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