Re: Slashdot discussion

From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>
To: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slashdot discussion
Date: 2000-07-11 01:17:53
Message-ID: 396A75C1.A6EAF06F@nimrod.itg.telecom.com.au
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Ed Loehr wrote:

> Good question. My 2 cents...
>
> 1) The RPM-installed binaries that come with RH 6.0/6.1 can easily and
> stealthly interfere with a src.tar.gz installation due to $PATH settings
> (accidentally drawing on /bin/p* instead of /opt/pgsql/bin/p* ... Adding
> detection to setup/install scripts might mitigate that.

That's a good point too. The INSTALL instructions should probably
contain
info on how to remove the default redhat or debian postgres
installation.

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