Hi all, Thanks for the suggestion, i have tried out the option Thomas has mentioned by unzipping the db, and it works in our scenario. Just a question regarding the shared library. I have run the following command so that postgres can locate the shared library
/sbin/ldconfig /home/app/pgsql/lib Below is the result after i executed it, are the following message expected? will it cause any issue on the postgres db? */sbin/ldconfig: /home/app/pgsql/lib/libpgtypes.so.3 is not a symbolic link /sbin/ldconfig: /home/app/pgsql/lib/libuuid.so.16 is not a symbolic link /sbin/ldconfig: /home/app/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5 is not a symbolic link /sbin/ldconfig: /home/app/pgsql/lib/libecpg.so.6 is not a symbolic link /sbin/ldconfig: /home/app/pgsql/lib/libecpg_compat.so.3 is not a symbolic link * Thanks again. Wei Xiang On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >> The real problem that I think the OP hasn't considered is whether >> his "bundled" RPM package isn't going to conflict with a preinstalled >> postgresql RPM. Relocating the RPM, either dynamically as you suggest >> or by just changing the install paths while building it, isn't a very >> palatable solution since e.g. you really want libpq.so in /usr/lib, >> psql in /usr/bin/, etc. >> >> > It sounds like they really do want all of those things to be installed in a > subdirectory of their app, so I don't see a problem with them being there > instead of the standard locations. As long as they know how to run psql > etc., not having them in the global PATH might be a feature rather than a > problem. The only detail I'm aware of they may not have considered is that > a subdirectory install has the potential for the binaries to not be able to > find their associated libraries, so they might either have to add those to > the system loader configuration or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before calling > database binaries. Ideally you'd find them via rpath or something so this > isn't an issue, but it's easy to miss that the first time you make a change > like this. > > > -- > Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant Baltimore, MD > PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support > g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.com > >
