Re: Version Discrepancy - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron St-Pierre
Subject Re: Version Discrepancy
Date
Msg-id 44B1C5E4.2020207@shaw.ca
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Version Discrepancy  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
List pgsql-general
Douglas McNaught wrote:
> rstp <ronDOTmhp@shaw.ca> writes:
>
>
>> pg_config is telling us that we are running version 7.3.6-RH, but when
>> we start psql it shows that we are running 8.1.4 (which is the correct
>> version).
>>   [postgres@mh bin]$ pg_config --version
>>   PostgreSQL 7.3.6-RH
>>   [postgres@mh bin]$ which postmaster
>>   ~/bin/postmaster
>>   [postgres@mh bin]$ psql imp
>>   Welcome to psql 8.1.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>>
>
> I'm guessing that for some reason the pg_config from 7.X is found
> first in your PATH.  What does 'which pg_config' print?
>
That's it. 'which pg_config' returns /usr/bin/pg_config
I guess that I ran it too early on a Saturday morning, I must have
blindly assumed that my '[postgres@mh bin]$ pg_config --version' command
would look at the current directory first by default.

Thanks Doug!

Ron
> -Doug
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
>
>


pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Francisco Reyes
Date:
Subject: Re: Can Log filename include database name?
Next
From: "Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
Subject: Re: Is OpenFTS dead?