[Linux-disciples] path conflict

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2011-11-20T00:14:01-0500, Jamie Forrest wrote:
> I have a strange, circular path conflict going on (OS X). Lion comes
> preinstalled with a version of postgresql in /usr/bin but I need to be
> using the one that I installed in /usr/local/bin. However, the
> /usr/local/bin directory also contains a default version of Python
> (again, not the version I want to be using). So, if I add
> /usr/local/bin to the head of my PATH variable in order to get psql
> working properly, that also causes the wrong Python to be run.
> 
> How do I get around this? Postgres and Python both come with lots of
> executables so I'd rather not have to delete or mv all these out of
> the directories. Any ideas?

You can make a new directory, use symbolic links to make the Postgres
files you want appear in this new directory, and add the new directory
to your PATH instead of adding /usr/local/bin.

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