Re: where is postres installed? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi Arbol,

Hope above response from Usman must have resolved your issue. You may also try by finding any  binary of PostgreSQL. e.g. 

 find /usr -name pg_ctl
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl
/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl

Regards,

Ikram

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 9:33 AM Muhammad Usman Khan <usman.k@bitnine.net> wrote:

Hi Arbol,

You can try from the following commands:

dpkg-query -L postgresql-16

which psql

sudo find / -name "postgres" 2>/dev/null

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 at 05:35, Arbol One <ArbolOne@hotmail.ca> wrote:

After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed 'postgres --version' and got this msg:
bash: postgres: command not found

'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message :

psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1)

Obviously postgres is not in the path, but I don't know where the 'apt-get' installed it or why it did not add it to the path.

Is there a way I can locate the installation directory?

Thank in advance.

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