Re: where is postres installed?

Hi Arbol,

Hope above response from Usman must have resolved your issue. You may also
try by finding any binary of PostgreSQL. e.g.

find /usr -name pg_ctl
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl
/usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl

Regards,
Ikram

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 9:33 AM Muhammad Usman Khan <usman(dot)k(at)bitnine(dot)net>
wrote:

> Hi Arbol,
>
> You can try from the following commands:
>
> dpkg-query -L postgresql-16
> which psql
> sudo find / -name "postgres" 2>/dev/null
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 at 05:35, Arbol One <ArbolOne(at)hotmail(dot)ca> wrote:
>
>> After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed 'postgres
>> --version' and got this msg:
>> *bash: postgres: command not found*
>>
>> 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message :
>>
>> *psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1)*
>>
>> Obviously postgres is not in the path, but I don't know where the
>> 'apt-get' installed it or why it did not add it to the path.
>>
>> Is there a way I can locate the installation directory?
>>
>> Thank in advance.
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