Setting up Postgres on Linux - Mailing list pgsql-general

From phil campaigne
Subject Setting up Postgres on Linux
Date
Msg-id 40488EB8.5060801@charter.net
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List pgsql-general
scott.marlowe wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, phil campaigne wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> when I login to linux and check the env's I see:
>>
PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/postgres/bin:/opt/IBMJava2-14/bin:/opt/IBMJava2-14/jre/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin

>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
>>
>> However after I successfully start postgresql using
>> /etc/init.d/postgres start
>> /etc/init.d/postgres status
>>
>> I cannot execute the following:
>> psql testdb
>> psql: relocation error: psql: undefined symbol: PQgetssl
>>
>> Then if I execute from the command line:
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
>>  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>
>> PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH
>>  export PATH
>>
>> then psql testdb works!
>>
>> What's going on???
>>
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> Are you exporting those same settings in your .bash_profile or
> whatever is setting up your environ?
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Yes Scott,
I tried exporting from /root/.bash_profile and /postgres/.bash_profile.
I also added the line

/usr/local/pgsql/lib

to /etc/ld.so.conf

I don't get it.
Phil



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