Re: where is postres installed?

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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