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I am trying to remove postgres from my CentOS server completely so I could start from the beginning, I did some seriously demented stuff!!!! one of them is deleting "/etc/init.d/postgres"

But then I cant remove it!! Things smile at me? Impossible!

I did the following command yum remove postgresql*

Removed
   postgresql84-server.x86_64 0:8.4.7-1.el5_6.1
Complete!

Then I wanted to check if it was removed

yum list installed | grep post
postgresql84-server.x86_64               8.4.7-1.el5_6.1               installed

Any help will be greatly appreciated Thanks,

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Have you tried removing 'postgresql84-server'? That looks like the package name – sam Jul 22 '11 at 10:47
Yup I tried that with no luck, the package still "installed" – wael34218 Jul 22 '11 at 10:51
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You can force the reinstallation by rpm -e --justdb --nodeps postgresql84-server and then running a yum install postgresql84-server.

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Thanks for the black smile ;) – wael34218 Jul 22 '11 at 11:05
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