Re: Slashdot discussion

Chris <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>

From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
To: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-11T01:17:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.