[GENERAL] libpq.so.4

2008-06-08 Thread Oliver Kohll
Hello, I have the same issue as this poster with libpq.so.4: http://www.nabble.com/8.3.0-upgrade-td16093803.html In short, I've upgraded to 8.3.1 from 8.1 on RHEL 4 (with some CentOS packages). I have apps with dependencies of libpq.so.4 but this is no longer available. 8.3.1 provides

Re: [GENERAL] libpq.so.4

2008-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Oliver Kohll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I've thought of trying so far is 1) creating a symlink called libpq.so.4 towards libpq.so.5 - slightly dangerous due to possible API changes? Worth trying. According to the CVS logs

Re: [GENERAL] libpq.so.4

2008-06-08 Thread Albe Laurenz
Oliver Kohll wrote: I have the same issue as this poster with libpq.so.4: http://www.nabble.com/8.3.0-upgrade-td16093803.html In short, I've upgraded to 8.3.1 from 8.1 on RHEL 4 (with some CentOS packages). I have apps with dependencies of libpq.so.4 but this is no longer available. 8.3.1

Re: [GENERAL] libpq.so.4

2008-06-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Sunday, 8. June 2008 schrieb Albe Laurenz: In short, I've upgraded to 8.3.1 from 8.1 on RHEL 4 (with some CentOS packages). I have apps with dependencies of libpq.so.4 but this is no longer available. 8.3.1 provides libpq.so.5 and the compat-libs provide libpq.so.3. Strange; does

Re: [GENERAL] libpq.so.4

2008-06-08 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 11:55 +0100, Oliver Kohll wrote: snip 3) building a custom compat package - I don't know how to do this though. These are probably my packages from http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org , and I thought I already fixed this issue -- I'll check. Anyway,

Re: [GENERAL] libpq.so.4

2008-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A workable fix, at least from the point of view of a Debian developer, is to put the soname number into the package name (libpq3, libpq4, libpq5, etc.), thus making them unique and coinstallable for all times. FWIW, the package names Red Hat has

Re: [GENERAL] libpq.so.4

2008-06-08 Thread Oliver Kohll
Thanks all, option 2 seems to work for me, just wanted to be sure I wasn't asking for crashes. Oliver Kohll On 8 Jun 2008, at 18:01, Tom Lane wrote: Oliver Kohll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I've thought of trying so far is 1) creating a symlink called libpq.so.4 towards libpq.so.5 -