Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 8/22/24 17:36, Arbol One wrote: >> After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed 'postgres >> --version' and got this msg: >> *bash: postgres: command not found* >> 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message : >> *psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1)* >> Obviously postgres is not in the path, but I don't know where the >> 'apt-get' installed it or why it did not add it to the path. > As to where the postgres command is: > ls -al /usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/ Theory 1: postgres is packaged in a "postgresql-server" package and the OP only installed the base (client-side) package. Theory 2: postgres is installed into some directory not in the OP's PATH, such as /usr/sbin. Since it's primarily used as a daemon, this'd be a reasonable thing for a packager to do. I'd bet a nickel on #1, though, because I've not seen too many packagers put postgres somewhere other than where they put psql. "Separate server package" is extremely common though. regards, tom lane
