Re: cannot remove some items from the server list after upgrade from postgres 8.x to 9.x

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Doug Easterbrook <doug(at)artsman(dot)com> wrote:
> we do.
>
> on windows, standard procedure on an upgrade is to:
> a) dump the database
> b) go to add/remove programs and remove the old server (it leaves the database 'data' around)
> c) install the new server
> d) restore the new database.
>
> in all cases, I get 8.4 and 9.0 databases pointing to the same thing.
>
> once we are sure the customer is running on the windows machine under 9.0, then we go back and delete 8.3 or 8.4 directory from  the program files/postres directory.
>
> I still cannot, at that time, delete the reference from pgadmin

Sounds like the installer isn't removing a reference for some reason.
What does your registry look like, under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PostgreSQL (you can export it, using
regedit)?

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