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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Anuj Pankaj <anujp@cybage.com>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: issue with Postgres uninstallation
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:46:04 -0400
Message-ID: <12378.1284648364@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Anuj Pankaj <anujp@cybage.com> writes:
> To install Postgres I created a folder Postgres and I kept all packages and I installed Postgres from these packages.
> To Uninstall Me suppose, I have to run rpm -e <each packages name>. Here mistakenly I removed all packages.I 

I rather doubt that rpm would have let you remove "all" packages, and
if it did you wouldn't have a functioning system at all.  Please answer
the question specifically rather than handwaving.

>  I am still able to login in Postgres.

Seems likely that you didn't actually remove Postgres.
In particular, successfully removing postgresql-server
would certainly have stopped the service.

			regards, tom lane



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