Re: Databse installation problem

Hi,thanks for your mail.
I have alredy stopped the database before new installation.
I have tried as you said but I am getting the same version 8.3.1.

As per Tim Bowden said , I have also done these steps but not able to get
the 8.3.7 version.

On 9/21/09, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> This does not belong to pgsql-bugs.
>
> I have a feeling that your previous version of postgres is still running.
> You should have stopped that daemon before doing 'rm -rf'. attaching/pasting
> your pgstartup.log would also help.
>
> For now, kill your current postgres processes, and then try to start again.
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Bhushan Verma <verma(dot)bhushan(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
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>> I have tried to install postgres version 8.3.7 as follows
>>
>> rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql
>> mkdir /var/lib/pgsql
>> ./configure --prefix /var/lib/pgsql
>> gmake
>> su
>> gmake install
>> adduser postgres
>> mkdir /var/lib/pgsql/data
>> chown postgres /var/lib/pgsql/data
>> su - postgres
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data >pgstartup.log 2>&1 &
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
>>
>> then i log on database to see the version
>> test=> select version();
>> version
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> PostgreSQL 8.3.1 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
>> 4.3.0 20080314 (Red Hat 4.3.0-3)
>> (1 row)
>> but its showing me 8.3.1 that was my previous version.
>> Could anyone tell me what is the problem.
>>
>> --
>> With Regards,
>> Bhushan
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