> > Dear Sirs, > > Apologizes, if this is a duplicate question. > > Would like to request you to share your valuable inputs on this. I would > like to know the PostgreSQL registry entries when we install it through > apt-get/yum/rpm.
yes, the packaged versions of postgres are recorded as being present but this is not in a public data store like the windows registry.
See the documentation for rpm (or dpkg etc, as apropriate) for how to test for the presence of postgresql. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural