On 21/05/2010 14:43, christophe.andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > How I know whether Postgres is already installed or not on a machine(on > Linux and Windows)? > I found that pg_ctl --version could be used or I also tried to check into > the registry (for windows HKLM\SOFTWARE\PostgreSQL\Installations), however > with Windows Server 2003 pg_ctl is not recognized (probably not in the > path) and the registries are not written (nothing appears under > HKLM\SOFTWARE\) On Windows, you could just have a look in c:\program files\postgresql. There are usually some items in the Start Menu also. On Linux, you'll see if it's actually running by doing ps ax | grep postgres or the like... If it's not running, where you'd look for the files varies from one distro to another, but using "find" should throw up some of them. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@xxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
