I screwed it up, my installation :(

Hi all,

First a bit of background, I am using RH6.1 on intel and my
window manager is HelixGnome with Sawfish.

Now, I sure hope someone can help me, I started with a
functioning pgsql 6.5.2-1 and decided to upgrade it with
the current version 7.0.2-2. I saw on the Download page the
comment about initdb and tried to find info about it,
ending up in the Installation How-To so I followed it.

On the first couple of attempts to install I kept getting
an error saying that libpq.so.2 was needed by the current
installation and hOpla, but logging in as root (yeah I
know, real dumb) and running the installation from there the
packages seemed to install ok (I downloaded the whole set of
packages because I want to really explore what I can do
with pgsql).

But then my problems really seemed to start (or at least now
become apparent) because then when I tried to restart the
postmaster service I got an error saying:
Checking postgresql installation: old version. Need to
Upgrade.See /usr/doc/postgresql-7.0/README.rpm for more
information.

I tried to uninstall the old version but I can't using
rpm or Gnorpm (which usually crashes anyway), I now realise
the installation of the new version seems to have failed
despite the fact that when it installed all the packages
hash marks indicated the progress. So now it seems I am in
a limbo-land where I cant go either one way or the other :-(

Before anyone tells me I went about this a**e-about-face you
are absolutely right and I am suitably shamed (never done
anything so stupid before -- on this computer that is ;-)

So please help me, I am desperate.

Alan
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