Re: [GENERAL] installing DBD::Pg without installing postgres
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:30:43 -0400, Fran Fabrizio alluded: Hello, It seems that there should be a way to install the DBD Pg module without having to install postgres on the local machine. I tried installing just the libs rpm, but that didn't seem to do the trick. I've done some usenet and mailing list archive searches, but all the info I'm turning up appears geared towards the assumption that you also want postgres installed locally. Am I looking in the wrong places? There really isn't any reason to do so. If you're looking to have many machines connect to a single PostgreSQL database, take a look at DBI::Proxy. It is designed to allow you to connect to databases that have libraries linked into the DBD::* executables without needing the libraries on the local box (this is very nice for avoiding the Oracle client library installs as well). Jeff ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
[GENERAL] installing DBD::Pg without installing postgres
Hello, It seems that there should be a way to install the DBD Pg module without having to install postgres on the local machine. I tried installing just the libs rpm, but that didn't seem to do the trick. I've done some usenet and mailing list archive searches, but all the info I'm turning up appears geared towards the assumption that you also want postgres installed locally. Am I looking in the wrong places? Thanks, Fran ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
Re: [GENERAL] installing DBD::Pg without installing postgres
Fran Fabrizio wrote: Hello, It seems that there should be a way to install the DBD Pg module without having to install postgres on the local machine. I tried installing just the libs rpm, but that didn't seem to do the trick. I've done some What's the dependencies for the DBD::Pg RPM? Satisfy those dependencies, and properly set up for client-server communications with a postgresql server, and it _should_ just _work_. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
Re: [GENERAL] installing DBD::Pg without installing postgres
What's the dependencies for the DBD::Pg RPM? Satisfy those dependencies, and properly set up for client-server communications with a postgresql server, and it _should_ just _work_. Well, if I had known what it took to satisfy the dependencies, I wouldn't have needed to post here. ;-) It was looking for a libpg-fe.h. This file does not appear to be in the libs rpm, which is the only thing I can install without needing to download the entire source. In the interest of a quicker resolution, I just went ahead and installed postgres. I had to install the libs rpm, then the postgres rpm itself, then the devel rpm in order to find the file. Since the devel depends on postgres itself, I did have to install postgres in order to install DBD Pg. Which seems wrong somehow. libpg-fe.h seems to be available from two places: in the source .tar.gz in the interfaces/ subdir, or in the devel rpm, which requires the source rpm. So either way, you have to grab the source in one form or another. Oh well. I just hoped that there was a libs rpm or .tar.gz that would allow me to build these other tools without requiring the eitire source of postgres itself. Maybe my hopes are misguided. =) Thanks, Fran ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [GENERAL] installing DBD::Pg without installing postgres
On Monday 23 April 2001 06:04 pm, Lamar Owen wrote: Fran Fabrizio wrote: Hello, It seems that there should be a way to install the DBD Pg module without having to install postgres on the local machine. I tried installing just the libs rpm, but that didn't seem to do the trick. I've done some What's the dependencies for the DBD::Pg RPM? Satisfy those dependencies, and properly set up for client-server communications with a postgresql server, and it _should_ just _work_. I don't know a lot of detail about how DBD::Pg works, but I do know that during installation (whether from tarball or CPAN, which I think is the best way to install perl modules), it requires the path of your postgres libraries and includes - so I guess it depends on a postgres installation on the local machine. What are you trying to accomplish, exactly? Michelle Michelle Murrain, Ph.D. President Norwottuck Technology Resources [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norwottuck.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [GENERAL] installing DBD::Pg without installing postgres
I don't know a lot of detail about how DBD::Pg works, but I do know that during installation (whether from tarball or CPAN, which I think is the best way to install perl modules), it requires the path of your postgres libraries and includes - so I guess it depends on a postgres installation on the local machine. What are you trying to accomplish, exactly? Well, one thing (that I can think of) would be to have multiple webservers (without postgres) connecting to a central DB server. I would've run into this in a couple of weeks, actually, so I'm glad someone else found out about it first. :) I think functionality to retrieve the necessary libs ought to be built into the installation of DBD::Pg to facilitate just such a situation... John -- # John Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 2EB9EA # FreeLists, Free mailing lists for all: http://www.freelists.org # UNIX Systems Engineer, Ivy Tech State College: http://www.ivy.tec.in.us # Linux, Apache, Perl and C: All the best things in life are free! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
