Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6335C9F9284 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:15:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 52326-06 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:15:25 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: delayed 00:21:48.096547 by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from mail.fmed.uba.ar (mail.fmed.uba.ar [157.92.152.1]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E0D9F9280 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:15:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [157.92.155.58] (unknown [157.92.155.58]) by mail.fmed.uba.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575309D559; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:55:57 -0300 (ART) Message-ID: <46BC800C.5070000@fmed.uba.ar> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:11:08 -0300 From: Gerardo Herzig User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Loredana Curugiu CC: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Install two different versions of postgres which should run in parallel References: <1c23c8e70708100433g4496040webeb53b44485bce7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1c23c8e70708100433g4496040webeb53b44485bce7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200708/81 X-Sequence-Number: 29019 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. > >Any information would greatly be appreciated. > >Loredana > > > Shure. You just have to take care about --prefix (executable path) and --with-pgport (default port) when you ./configure, and also take care of the datadir you chose when executing initdb. Good luck. Gerardo