Re: Changes in 8.2's PHP behaviour? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erik Jones
Subject Re: Changes in 8.2's PHP behaviour?
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Msg-id 45871888.10203@myemma.com
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In response to Changes in 8.2's PHP behaviour?  ("semi-ambivalent" <rloefgren@forethought.net>)
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You probably need to re-compile PHP so that it can correctly link to the
new postgres binaries.

semi-ambivalent wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a simple web page that inserts data into a table in 8.1.5 using
> PHP4. It's pretty amateurish but gets the job done. A few days ago I
> upgraded to 8.2 (this is on a FreeBSD system, and I used the port) but
> when I tried to use the web page this morning I got errors about:
>
> PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function:  pg_escape_string() in
> /usr/local/www/data-dist/some_dir/some_dir/dataInsert.php on line 9,
> referer: http://localhost/some_dir/some_dir/dataEnter.php
>
> I'm a pretty poor PHP person, and I think its error messages can be
> cryptic, but nothing has changed in this except the version of
> postgresql. Does 8.2 handle input differently than does 8.1.x? Is that
> where to begin looking? I have seen talk about handling of escape
> strings but thought is was 'this way is good and this way is bad' kind
> of thing, not a 'this way will no longer work with postgresql' thing.
> FWIW a quick pg_dump, a fallback to 8.1.5 and a restore and things work
> again.
>
> thanks for any pointers,
>
> r
>
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