Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B54133655C for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:40:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96180-05 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:40:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtpcorp.com (smtpcorp.com [67.192.120.76]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D03133616B for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:40:48 -0400 (AST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=smtpcorp.com; s=main; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject:From:To; bh=Fs5JMAbgAyKvl3liljB5su1inz57vieEzR3GgEWfZBs=; b=Fn4TguighFny2ye1dyU2EfhFgNzBdPJq9lBjg1xM9lOvUHRXpTFgrn5SHoKna7HwSA2Zlb2/mF5BEy9HNqkWl4UqSldM2YZ1qhAEFdBRFvoFzSXYffwdo0xT/CDsCAKA; Received: from ip-118-90-132-145.xdsl.xnet.co.nz ([118.90.132.145] helo=gonzo) by smtpcorp.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.70) id 1PXOYP-0007ER-8W; mid 144 for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:40:45 +0000 Received: from news by gonzo with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PXOYD-0002Zv-0L for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:40:33 +1300 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Path: not-for-mail From: Jasen Betts Newsgroups: gmane.comp.db.postgresql.admin Subject: Re: Unable to install 9.0 postgre in debian-lenny Date: 28 Dec 2010 01:40:32 GMT Organization: Dis (not Dat) Organisation Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reversiblemaps.ath.cx 1293500432 9913 127.0.0.1 (28 Dec 2010 01:40:32 GMT) X-Face: ?)Aw4rXwN5u0~$nqKj`xPz>xHCwgi^q+^?Ri*+R(&uv2=E1Q0Zk(>h!~o2ID@6{uf8s; a +M[5[U[QT7xFN%^gR"=tuJw%TXXR'Fp~W; (T"1(739R%m0Yyyv*gkGoPA.$b,D.w:z+<'"=-lVT?6 {T?=R^:W5g|E2#EhjKCa+nt":4b}dU7GYB*HBxn&Td$@f%.kl^:7X8rQWd[NTc"P"u6nkisze/Q; 8 "9Z{peQF,w)7UjV$c|RO/mQW/NMgWfr5*$-Z%u46"/00mx-,\R'fLPe.)^ User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Smtpcorp-Track: 19410041.1.43237303 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201012/190 X-Sequence-Number: 36419 On 2010-12-27, ℓєѕℓιє ѕαмυєℓ wrote: > --0016363ba666df16580498676542 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear friends, > > I have installed the debian-lenny in my system.. Lenny is having 8.3 > postgres as a default package. > I have installed 8.4 postgres successfully. But I unable to install 9.x > postgres in that same machine. > Whether postgres 9.x won't support lenny or what ? Let me now plzz. > > Thanks in advance.. The default postgres configuration supports only one instance (called a cluster) installed on each server (you can have more by changing configuration settings). Debian does some stuff in the postgresql-common package to allow several to be easily installed on one server. If you installed 8.4 from postgres.org (not from debian-backports) it will have occupied the postgres default location and thus be blocking the install of 9.x -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural