Re: Removing older versions

On 2009-08-29, Blueb <blueb(at)shaw(dot)ca> wrote:
> I installed PostgreSQL 8.4 over a PostgreSQL 8.3 installation (using msi) on
> a Windows machine.

there's a msi installer for 8.4?

> My pgAdmin3 program correctly displays only PostgreSQL 8.4 on localhost.
>
> I went to my harddrive and noticed that I have PostgreSQL 8.3 "DATA" files
> installed in: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3
>
> Thinking these were simply empty folders.. I tried to delete them, but I get
> an error that I needed permission to do this.
>
> I looked and there seems to be 13 megs of data files that the install
> program did not delete.
>
> How can I do this from either pgAdmin.exe or manually?

you need windows superuser - try doing it as administrator.
ensure that the pgsql-8.3 service is not running,

or try this:

runas postgres cmd /c del /s /y C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3