Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-31 Thread Shane Ambler
Christoph Heibl wrote: run this in the command line locate postmaster.pid or find / -name "postmaster.pid" -print that should locate any postmaster files and then remove whatever looks like the postmaster.pif file Thank you! I found postmaster.pid in usr/local/pgsql/data. I deleted the wh

Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-30 Thread Christoph Heibl
run this in the command line locate postmaster.pid or find / -name "postmaster.pid" -print that should locate any postmaster files and then remove whatever looks like the postmaster.pif file Thank you! I found postmaster.pid in usr/local/pgsql/data. I deleted the whole pgsql directory an

Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-26 Thread PostgreSQL Admin
I hate to sound like a --- but did you read the README on starting the server? You start the server by using the postmaster command: /path/to/postmaster -D /path/to/data look at the postgresql manual - it's all there. J ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-24 Thread PostgreSQL Admin
run this in the command line locate postmaster.pid or find / -name "postmaster.pid" -print that should locate any postmaster files and then remove whatever looks like the postmaster.pif file ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the po

Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-24 Thread Shane Ambler
Christoph Heibl wrote: Thanks a lot for your help! By deleting the pgsql directory I get some steps further. Now I get stuck by a error message saying "postmaster.pid" already exists, when I try to start postmaster. I am not really sure what this means because I think I initiated the database

Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-24 Thread Christoph Heibl
Thanks a lot for your help! By deleting the pgsql directory I get some steps further. Now I get stuck by a error message saying "postmaster.pid" already exists, when I try to start postmaster. I am not really sure what this means because I think I initiated the database only once, but I gue

Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-20 Thread John DeSoi
On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Christoph Heibl wrote: I' ve been trying to mirror the harddisk of my old mac via firewire on my new computer (Intel Core Duo, OS 10.4.10) which resulted fairly well expect that my postgreSQL got screwed up. I then tried to install it once more, but this failed

Re: [ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-20 Thread Sibte Abbas
On 7/20/07, Christoph Heibl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear experts, I' ve been trying to mirror the harddisk of my old mac via firewire on my new computer (Intel Core Duo, OS 10.4.10) which resulted fairly well expect that my postgreSQL got screwed up. I then tried to install it once more, but

[ADMIN] deinstallation - reinstallation on Mac OS 10.4

2007-07-20 Thread Christoph Heibl
Dear experts, I' ve been trying to mirror the harddisk of my old mac via firewire on my new computer (Intel Core Duo, OS 10.4.10) which resulted fairly well expect that my postgreSQL got screwed up. I then tried to install it once more, but this failed. I guess I did not remove all the re

Re: [ADMIN] Deinstallation

2006-02-23 Thread Andy Shellam
Moritz, The only problem you'll have with regard to configuration issues, is your local applications might try connecting using the 7.4 client libraries as opposed to the 8.1, however if you didn't add a --prefix option to your configure, it should overwrite the old libraries with the new ref

Re: [ADMIN] Deinstallation

2006-02-23 Thread Andy Shellam
Hi Moritz - you got 8.1.3 going then? Excellent :-D You need to try a number of things to find the exact package for 7.4 to remove. Firstly, see if either apt-get or yum is installed on your system.  Then you can do apt-get remove pgsql apt-get remove postgres apt-get remove postgresql (or

[ADMIN] Deinstallation

2006-02-23 Thread Moritz Bayer
Hello again,   I've installed Postgres Version 8.1.3 on my Linux machine from sourcecode. Before that, there was already the version 7.4 running. May be a dumn question, but how do I deinstall the Version 7.4?   Thanks for your help,   Moritz