You guys are smart!
Apache was running against an old libpq. I shutdown apache, updated
/etc/ld.so.conf with the postgres lib dir, ran ldconfig, restarted
apache, and the problem went away.
The old libpq was libpq.so.3.0 (pre-installed on machine). The new one
is libpq.so.3.2 (installed with 8.0.1)
Sorry for the false alarm - thanks for the help.
Kai Ronan
Technical Support
Kalador Entertainment Inc.
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:46:46PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
I note in the PHP 4 sources that the PQunescapeBytea function seems to
have been copied there, "for the benefit of PostgreSQL 7.2 users". It
says that it comes from 7.3 but I don't see any sscanf call.
There is no PQunescapeBytea call in the whole source that I can see, so
my guess is that the libpq function is not called at all. So this may
be a PHP bug rather than a Postgres bug.
The OP claimed to be using PHP 5.1.2, which does have a call to
PQunescapeBytea(), although it also has the old code you're seeing
and a HAVE_PQUNESCAPEBYTEA macro that determines which to use.
Interesting that the command line php and the Apache module behave
differently. I wonder if ldd would show the php executable and
libphp5.so linked against different versions of libpq; that would
add weight to Tom's suggestion that an old libpq might be responsible.
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