Re: Slashdot discussion - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris Bitmead
Subject Re: Slashdot discussion
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Msg-id 396A75C1.A6EAF06F@nimrod.itg.telecom.com.au
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In response to Re: Slashdot discussion  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Ed Loehr wrote:

> Good question.  My 2 cents...
>
> 1)  The RPM-installed binaries that come with RH 6.0/6.1 can easily and
> stealthly interfere with a src.tar.gz installation due to $PATH settings
> (accidentally drawing on /bin/p* instead of /opt/pgsql/bin/p* ...  Adding
> detection to setup/install scripts might mitigate that.

That's a good point too. The INSTALL instructions should probably
contain
info on how to remove the default redhat or debian postgres
installation.

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