Jan Muhammad <janmuhd(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> It wasn'tinstalled with package manager; Idownloaded and
> followed the PDF manual from the link (
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/) But now while I installed it
> from source; if try to check it with (#rpm -q postgresql ), I get
> "Package postgresql is not installed".
Well, yeah, because you didn't install it from an RPM, so none of the
RPM management tools know anything about it.
regards, tom lane