Re: cannot remove some items from the server list after upgrade from postgres 8.x to 9.x

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Doug Easterbrook <doug@artsman.com> wrote:
> I've discovered that as we migrate a each of our customers from 8.4 to 9.x
> of postgres, we see that the nubmer of servers always changes from only
> Servers (1)
> -> PostgreSQL 8.4 (localhost:5432)
> to be two servers in the pgadmin list
> Servers (2)
> -> PostgreSQL 8.4 (localhost:5432)
> -> PostgreSQL 9.0 (localhost:5432)
>
>
> I've seen that before in earlier version upgrades, and it was easy enough to
> delete one (or so I think).
> now, once you have both of these in your list of servers, I find that you
> can't delete a server by using right -click & delete/drop
> I've inspected the postgres preferences and the information stays in the
> preferences .
>
> When you delete them, it looks like they go away, but when you restart
> pgadmin, the serve you just deleted comes back.

You need to uninstall the old server. Otherwise, pgAdmin will
re-detect it, and add it back to the list.



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