Re: How to check completeness of installation

chris <psql-contact@citecs.de>

From: chris <psql-contact@citecs.de>
To: "Subramanian,Ramachandran" <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>
Cc: "pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-02-19T11:03:53Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 10:50:07AM +0000, Subramanian,Ramachandran wrote:
> Hello 
> 
>   Thank you for your guidance. 
> 
> Our Linux Admin team said that they picked up a RHEL9 package with postgres ( I do not from where ), 
> and this package possibly did not have the complete set of executables.

there are RPM from postgresql.org:
https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/

I would expect them to be complete (maybe just for comparison)

> They also said that soon they will resolve the issue. 

Nice guys :-)

> The first two commands work , the third command  rpm -q | p package_name does not work  ( p unknown command ). 

it's rather "minus qu _ell_ pee" than "minus qu _pipe_ pee"

> [postgres@lx90158 ~]$ cat /etc/os-release
> NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
> VERSION="9.7 (Plow)"

so it's Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 9.7
which uses "rpm" as package manager.

HTH, Chris