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From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Anuj Pankaj <anujp@cybage.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: issue with Postgres uninstallation
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:05:12 -0400
Message-ID: <4C930518.1090402@2ndquadrant.com> (raw)
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> You do not need the packages to uninstall them.  do this:
>
> rpm -qa|grep -i postgres
>
> and see what packages are listed.
>
> Then
>
> rpm -e packagename1 packagename2 ...
>
> to remove them all.
>   

Note that you may have issues removing the compat-postgresql-libs 
packages, as things other than the main database sofware you can have 
installed will rely on those.  Here's what I do to get rid of all the 
rest of them in one easy command:

rpm -qa | egrep "^postgresql" | xargs rpm -e

-- 
Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support  www.2ndQuadrant.us
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