Re: Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

["A. Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>]

In response to Wang, Mary Y :
> Thanks Andreas for the info.  I'm working on a development server right now, and currently I don't have any data loaded yet.  As matter of fact, I was trying to load the database data from a dump file that generated by "pg_dump".  
> Here is the thing:
> I've a /usr/bin/initdb -> this is probably from version 7.3 and other postgres related executable files. 
> I've a /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -> this is probably from version 8.3.8.  I think all the postgres related executable files are located in this directory.  I like this organization much better in 8.3.8.
> My question is what files should I delete from /usr/bin directory?  Is there an automatic way to uninstall a particular version?  I want to delete the 7.3 version and don't want to have multiple versions of postgres running on the same server.  
> If there is not an automatic way, then I can probably remove files like initdb, dropdb, createdb, psql and etc from the /usr/bin directory.
> Or may be just specify the path when I run the initdb command "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb" (other wise it would use /usr/bin/initdb)
> 
> Any thoughts?

I'm not familiar with RH, maybe someone else can better help you. But i
think, you should use the packaging system, RPM, for software-(de)installation.


Andreas
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