Re: issue with Postgres uninstallation - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: issue with Postgres uninstallation
Date
Msg-id 12378.1284648364@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: issue with Postgres uninstallation  (Anuj Pankaj <anujp@cybage.com>)
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Anuj Pankaj <anujp@cybage.com> writes:
> To install Postgres I created a folder Postgres and I kept all packages and I installed Postgres from these packages.
> To Uninstall Me suppose, I have to run rpm -e <each packages name>. Here mistakenly I removed all packages.I

I rather doubt that rpm would have let you remove "all" packages, and
if it did you wouldn't have a functioning system at all.  Please answer
the question specifically rather than handwaving.

>  I am still able to login in Postgres.

Seems likely that you didn't actually remove Postgres.
In particular, successfully removing postgresql-server
would certainly have stopped the service.

            regards, tom lane

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