Re: How to uninstall Postgres

On Oct 6, 2005, at 1:14 AM, suresh ramasamy wrote:

> On 10/6/05, Ly Lam Ngoc Bich <ly(dot)bich(at)ais(dot)cmc(dot)osaka-u(dot)ac(dot)jp> wrote:
>
>> I have installed PostgresSQL with postgresql-8.0.3.tar.gz . My
>> computer's OS is Linux Fedora 3 . Please show me to the way to
>> uninstall
>> PostgresSQL.
>
> hi,
>
> have you customized your installation as instructed in the postgresql
> manual page?
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/install-procedure.html
> any way you have goto your source directory where you have started
> your installation and give the command
> # make clean
> # make dist clean
> and remove the directory.
> It should work in most of the cases.
>
> regards
> suresh

There's actually a make uninstall rule, too.

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