Exactly what happened, Peter. Something was preventing me of successfully install 8.2.4 through apt-get, so I did it by hand.
I'll read the documentation about LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Thank you. Hilton Perantunes On 8/17/07, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 16. August 2007 23:41 schrieb Hilton Perantunes: > > Alvaro, it works like a charm =). Thank you all. > > > > Bad, bad Debian.. no cookies for you (and I'll read the error messages > more > > carefully next time)! > > The problem is quite likely some variant on the following: You had your > distribution-supplied PostgreSQL packages installed, which > use /var/run/postgresql as the socket location. Then you built your own > pieces of PostgreSQL, which use /tmp. When you call just "psql" > or "pgadmin3", they will use the system-supplied libpq, which uses the > system-specific socket location, since they don't know about your > hand-crafted installation. If you had called the psql binary from your > own > installation with an explicit path (and your used the rpath feature during > compilation), then this would have worked. Or you could have used the > environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the libpq of your choice. > There are a few ways to get this wrong. On Debian the socket location is > usually the first indicator, but you ought to be careful in general if you > mix installations like that. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut > http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ > -- Hilton William Ganzo Perantunes Sistemas de Informação - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina -- Dinheiro não traz felicidade, mas dá uma sensação tão parecida... -_-
