Re: undefined symbol: PQconnectdbParams - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: undefined symbol: PQconnectdbParams
Date
Msg-id 1281821105.16112.18.camel@jdavis
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In response to undefined symbol: PQconnectdbParams  (Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il>)
Responses Re: undefined symbol: PQconnectdbParams
List pgsql-general
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 23:18 +0300, Sim Zacks wrote:
>
> I compiled postgresql beta 4 on a users account and installed it with a
> different port into my home directory (~/pg9)
>
> This was recommended by my web host because they refused to give me
> plpythonu access on a shared server. (perfectly understandable from
> their perspective)
>
>
> I can get into psql using psql -p{port number} -U{username} postgres
>
> pg_dump works as well.
>
>
> When I try using createdb or createlang I get the error:
>
> undefined symbol: PQconnectdbParams
>
>
> Obviously I can get around this problem by going into psql and running
> these commands, but I would like my environment set up correctly.
>
>
> Any thoughts

It's probably finding the wrong library. Which binaries are you using?
If you do "ldd /path/to/binary", what does it show? Maybe you need to
set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the "lib" directory of your new postgres install?

Regards,
    Jeff Davis


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