On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > >>Is there any chance we could have initdb show the version of postgresql > >>it is running as when initdb is run? > > > > > > If you install many different versions in parallel, don't you give your > > installation paths some meaning that contain the version number? In any > > case, you can run initdb --version first if you're not sure about what is > > where. > > Yes I do, but sometimes as different users you don't know what the path > is. I guess I can just go --version.
Anytime I'm running multple versions on the same box, I install them to paths like /usr/local/pgsql72 and create a user like pgsql72 and then set it so the path for that use is /usr/local/pgsql72/bin. that way, just looking at the command prompt I know which version / superuser I'm playing with. Plus, no matter how badly I try to screw up, pgsql72 doen't have permission to initdb pgsql73's $PGDATA directory. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
