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.