Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> writes:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> Now, -9.0.5 is installed in /usr/local/pgsql/ and -9.3.3 is installed in
>> /opt/pgsql-9.3.3. I want to use pg_upgrade and have read the Web page with
>> the instructions.
> I am having problems initializing the new version in /opt/pgsql-9.3.3. I
> kill the postgres-9.0.5 process, and as user 'postgres' I tried to initdb
> with this result:
> initdb -D /opt/pgsql-9.3.3/9.3/data/
> The program "postgres" was found by "/bin/initdb"
> but was not the same version as initdb.
> Check your installation.
> When I ask which postgres I find:
> [root@salmo ~]# ll /usr/bin/postgres
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Mar 17 06:50 /usr/bin/postgres ->
> ../lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/postgres*
Your PATH seems to be finding initdb in /bin (or is that /usr/bin),
not the one you want under /opt/pgsql-9.3.3.
regards, tom lane
