Re: Run 2 versions of Postgresql on one machine?

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Wei Wang <ww220(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Run 2 versions of Postgresql on one machine?
Date: 2004-02-06 21:09:04
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0402061407080.6661-100000@css120.ihs.com
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I just set up two different accounts, one named pg73, one named pg74, for
instance, and run everything from there. This also lets you set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH for each one to be the right path, and not worry about
having it try to load the wrong shared libs.

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Wei Wang wrote:

> Thank you all for your kind help. I have set up 7.4.1 and it's up and
> running perfectly.
> One small question that might not belong in this mailing list:
> Since all the binary commands share the same name, e.g. initdb, createdb,
> psql, etc, and the
> default path is already the 7.1.3 version. How do I come up a way to access
> binary commands of
> both versions quickly without adding absolute path infront of those of
> 7.4.1?

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