Re: complete uninstall of postgres 9.0.4

Dear ramy,

ok "manual" uninstall does not seem to be a good idea. Most of your
results do not actually correspond to postgresql. And a lot of what has
been installed does not appear. You mentionned in your first message
that the uninstall process left "a bunch of configuration nonsense".
Could you tell us what it is? Does someone else successfully uninstalled
postgres via brew??

david

Le 07/11/11 16:19, Ramy Abdel-Azim a écrit :
> sorry here's the whole result of my find (i only posted just a little
> over half the first time - very sorry. i don't frequent the mailing
> lists as much as I should)
>
> > sudo find / -name "*postgres*"
> find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
> find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/activerecord-3.1.1/rdoc/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter_rb.html
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/activerecord-3.1.1/ri/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/PostgreSQLAdapter/postgresql_version-i.ri
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/arel-2.2.1/rdoc/lib/arel/visitors/postgresql_rb.html
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.1.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/arel-2.2.1/lib/arel/visitors/postgresql.rb
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/arel-2.2.1/test/visitors/test_postgres.rb
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.1/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/config/databases/jdbcpostgresql.yml
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.1/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/config/databases/postgresql.yml
> /Library/WebServer/Documents/postgresql
> /Library/WebServer/Documents/postgresql/html/app-postgres.html
> /Library/WebServer/Documents/postgresql/html/postgres-user.html
> /private/etc/apache2/users/postgres.conf
> /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups/_postgres.plist
> /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/postgres's
> Public Folder.plist
> /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/_postgres.plist
> /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/postgres.plist
> /System/Library/DirectoryServices/DefaultLocalDB/Default/groups/_postgres.plist
> /System/Library/DirectoryServices/DefaultLocalDB/Default/users/_postgres.plist
> /Users/postgres
> /Users/remcat/dev/working/startwire/vendor/plugins/foreign_keys/lib/foreign_keys/postgresql_adapter.rb
> /Users/remcat/Library/Application
> Support/CrashReporter/postgres_DCCEF98F-4602-5FF7-964F-5E717AC007B4.plist
> /Users/remcat/Library/Caches/Homebrew/postgresql-9.0.4.tar.bz2
> /Users/remcat/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History/http:%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org
> <http://2fwww.postgresql.org/>%2Fdocs%2Fcurrent%2Fstatic%2Findex.html.webhistory
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/postgres_2011-11-06-194716_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/postgres_2011-11-06-194742_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/postgres_2011-11-06-194757_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/postgres_2011-11-06-194958_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/postgres_2011-11-06-203352_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/postgres_2011-11-06-203359_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.postgres_2011-11-06-194716_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash.plist
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.postgres_2011-11-06-194742_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash.plist
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.postgres_2011-11-06-194757_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash.plist
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.postgres_2011-11-06-194958_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash.plist
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.postgres_2011-11-06-203352_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash.plist
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.postgres_2011-11-06-203359_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash.plist
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/postgres_2011-11-06-194716_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/postgres_2011-11-06-194742_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/postgres_2011-11-06-194757_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/postgres_2011-11-06-194958_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/postgres_2011-11-06-203352_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/postgres_2011-11-06-203359_Ramys-MacBook-Pro.crash
> /Users/remcat/Library/Saved Application
> State/org.postgresql.pgadmin.savedState
> /usr/bin/postgres_real
> /usr/include/postgres_ext.h
> /usr/include/postgresql
> /usr/include/postgresql/internal/postgres_fe.h
> /usr/include/postgresql/server/postgres.h
> /usr/include/postgresql/server/postgres_ext.h
> /usr/include/postgresql/server/postgres_fe.h
> /usr/lib/postgresql/usr/local/Library/Aliases/postgres
>
> /usr/local/Library/Formula/postgresql.rb
> /usr/local/var/postgres
> /usr/local/var/postgres/postgresql.conf
> /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
> /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor/rails/railties/configs/databases/postgresql.yml
> /usr/share/devicemgr/webserver/gems/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/em/protocols/postgres3.rb
> /usr/share/man/man1/postgres.1.gz
> /usr/share/postgresql
> /usr/share/postgresql/postgres.bki
> /usr/share/postgresql/postgres.description
> /usr/share/postgresql/postgres.shdescription
> /usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf
> /usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Ramy Abdel-Azim
> <ramy(dot)abdel-azim(at)startdatelabs(dot)com
> <mailto:ramy(dot)abdel-azim(at)startdatelabs(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> ok, i'm going to go about this in a bit of a brute force manner
> for the sake of time, I apologize for bombarding everyone with
> this ugly post but it would helpful me significantly. the
> following is the output of my "sudo find" command. which
> files/directories are safe/necessary to delete?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Baux David <david(dot)baux(at)inserm(dot)fr
> <mailto:david(dot)baux(at)inserm(dot)fr>> wrote:
>
> Dear Ramy,
>
> I confirm the message posted twice. I am also new to
> postgresql and I just switched to Lion so I am probably not
> very helpful but as it seems that you got no answers, I can
> try to give you some clues.
> My postgresql install was not through brew, but if I
> understood weel, all should be in /usr/local. So if you can
> locate the file manually, or follow the symlinks, you can
> probably delete them manually (but be careful).
> Maybe you should also check that the server was not running
> before launching the uninstall process (pg_ctl stop).
>
> To answer your last question, I used the dmg directly
> downloaded from Postgres website, and everything did well (it
> installs in /Library/PostgreSQL/, and some stuff in
> /Applications/PostgreSQL/). And for post install, the
> documentation is quite complete. Installing DBD::Pg for perl
> on Lion worked also well.
> BW
>
> david
>
>
>
>
> Le 07/11/11 15:36, Ramy Abdel-Azim a écrit :
>> Not sure if this has already posted, but I wasn't accepted to
>> the mailing list the first time i sent it. apologies if it
>> shows up twice.
>> _Ramy
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Ramy Abdel-Azim
>> <ramy(dot)abdel-azim(at)startdatelabs(dot)com
>> <mailto:ramy(dot)abdel-azim(at)startdatelabs(dot)com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> It seems I've rather botched my installation of postgres
>> onto my Mac OSX lion machine. I would like to "start over
>> from scratch". I've tried "brew uninstall postgresql" but
>> this seems to leave a bunch of configuration nonsense
>> that I dont' need in my new installation still in tact
>> (or something). In any case, instead of trying to figure
>> out what i did wrong, I'd like to completely start over
>> with the installation process. i don't need to retain any
>> database tables or any data or anything like that. I'd
>> like to get my machine back to a point where it knew
>> nothing of postgres.
>>
>> Please let me know if you can assist me.
>>
>> And, along the way, if you know of any gotchas that come
>> with trying to install postgres on mac osx lion, please
>> let me know about them. I'm completely new to both Mac
>> OSX lion (though not linux) and completely new to
>> postgres (though i have used MySQL and SQL-Server in the
>> past).
>>
>> Thanks kindly,
>> _Ramy
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

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