Re: complete uninstall of postgres 9.0.4 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: complete uninstall of postgres 9.0.4
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Msg-id 28845.1320689864@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: complete uninstall of postgres 9.0.4  (Ramy Abdel-Azim <ramy.abdel-azim@startdatelabs.com>)
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Ramy Abdel-Azim <ramy.abdel-azim@startdatelabs.com> writes:
> sorry here's the whole result of my find (i only posted just a little over
> half the first time - very sorry. i don't frequent the mailing lists as
> much as I should)

Hmmm ... you said you're running on OS X Lion?  If you are, then a lot
of these hits correspond to the postgresql code installed *by Apple*
as part of the OS, and it's likely not such a good idea to remove them.
(Yes, they ship 9.0.4 with Lion, or large chunks of it anyway.  I think
you need to buy Lion Server to get a complete working server from Apple,
but all the client-side code is there in the base OS.)

It's possible to set up a user install of a different version of
Postgres without conflicting with Apple's copy, but it has to go into
different directories, such as /usr/local.  Trying to remove Apple's
copy altogether doesn't sound like the way to proceed.

            regards, tom lane

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