Uninstalling Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL¶

To uninstall Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, remove all the installed packages and data / configuration files.

NOTE: Should you need the data files later, back up your data before uninstalling Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL.

On Debian and Ubuntu using apt On Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives using yum

To uninstall Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL on platforms that use apt package manager such as Debian or Ubuntu, complete the following steps.

Run all commands as root or via sudo.

Stop the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL service.
```
$ sudo systemctl stop postgresql.service
```

Remove the percona-postgresql packages.

$ sudo apt remove percona-postgresql-17* percona-patroni percona-pgbackrest  percona-pgbadger percona-pgbouncer

Remove configuration and data files.
```
$ rm -rf /etc/postgresql/17/main
```

To uninstall Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL on platforms that use yum package manager such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, complete the following steps.

Run all commands as root or via sudo.

Stop the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL service.
```
$ sudo systemctl stop postgresql-17
```

Remove the percona-postgresql packages

$ sudo yum remove percona-postgresql17* percona-pgbadger

Remove configuration and data files
```
$ rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/17/data
```

Uninstall from tarballs¶

If you installed Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL from binary tarballs, stop the PostgreSQL server and remove the folder with the binary tarballs.

Stop the postgres server:

$ /path/to/tarballs/percona-postgresql17/bin/pg_ctl -D path/to/datadir -l logfile stop

Sample output

waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped

Remove the directory with extracted tarballs
```
$ sudo rm -rf /path/to/tarballs/
```

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