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Loredana Curugiu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to have two different vesions of postgres running in parallel on
> different ports. Does anyone knows how to install two different versions
> of postgres (7.4.5 and 8.2.4) on the same computer? I am using Linux
> operating system.

You can install from source and provide the --prefix argument to the
configure command.

Sean