Version Discrepancy

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#1rstp
ronDOTmhp@shaw.ca

pg_config is telling us that we are running version 7.3.6-RH, but when
we start psql it shows that we are running 8.1.4 (which is the correct
version).
[postgres@mh bin]$ pg_config --version
PostgreSQL 7.3.6-RH
[postgres@mh bin]$ which postmaster
~/bin/postmaster
[postgres@mh bin]$ psql imp
Welcome to psql 8.1.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

This isn't causing any problems, but does seem a bit unusual. We
purchased a Dell server with RHEL preinstalled, minus postgres, which we
installed ourselves. No non-8.1.4 versions of pg_ctl or postmaster exist
on the server. Any ideas on what's causing this?

Thanks,

Ron

#2Doug McNaught
doug@mcnaught.org
In reply to: rstp (#1)
Re: Version Discrepancy

rstp <ronDOTmhp@shaw.ca> writes:

pg_config is telling us that we are running version 7.3.6-RH, but when
we start psql it shows that we are running 8.1.4 (which is the correct
version).
[postgres@mh bin]$ pg_config --version
PostgreSQL 7.3.6-RH
[postgres@mh bin]$ which postmaster
~/bin/postmaster
[postgres@mh bin]$ psql imp
Welcome to psql 8.1.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

I'm guessing that for some reason the pg_config from 7.X is found
first in your PATH. What does 'which pg_config' print?

-Doug

#3Ron St-Pierre
ron.pgsql@shaw.ca
In reply to: Doug McNaught (#2)
Re: Version Discrepancy

Douglas McNaught wrote:

rstp <ronDOTmhp@shaw.ca> writes:

pg_config is telling us that we are running version 7.3.6-RH, but when
we start psql it shows that we are running 8.1.4 (which is the correct
version).
[postgres@mh bin]$ pg_config --version
PostgreSQL 7.3.6-RH
[postgres@mh bin]$ which postmaster
~/bin/postmaster
[postgres@mh bin]$ psql imp
Welcome to psql 8.1.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

I'm guessing that for some reason the pg_config from 7.X is found
first in your PATH. What does 'which pg_config' print?

That's it. 'which pg_config' returns /usr/bin/pg_config
I guess that I ran it too early on a Saturday morning, I must have
blindly assumed that my '[postgres@mh bin]$ pg_config --version' command
would look at the current directory first by default.

Thanks Doug!

Ron

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-Doug

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