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Date:      Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:02:03 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing PostgreSQL as a package
Message-ID:  <20060105070203.GD10946@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <1136433425.1989.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
References:  <1136433425.1989.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:57:05PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote:
> I am having trouble installing postgresql80-server on a 6.0 machine.  It
> complains that it is incompatible with postgresql-client-7.4.8. This
> can't be deleted because it is a dependency of koffice and kde, so I am
> reluctant to force the deletion.
> 
> I forced the install of postgresql80-server, but it hasn't created
> anything in /usr/local/pgsql, and I haven't yet been able to get it to
> run.
> 
> Should I try compiling it from source, or is there something obvious I
> have missed?  I have created the pgsql account.

If I were you, I'd force the deletion of -client, and then rebuild
koffice so that it uses the -client-8.0. Right now, your client will
be unstable as it's a 7.4.8 client trying to talk to a 8.0 server.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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