Re: issue with Postgres uninstallation

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> You do not need the packages to uninstall them.  do this:
>
> rpm -qa|grep -i postgres
>
> and see what packages are listed.
>
> Then
>
> rpm -e packagename1 packagename2 ...
>
> to remove them all.
>

Note that you may have issues removing the compat-postgresql-libs
packages, as things other than the main database sofware you can have
installed will rely on those.  Here's what I do to get rid of all the
rest of them in one easy command:

rpm -qa | egrep "^postgresql" | xargs rpm -e

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