On 19 June 2014 22:41, Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> wrote:
> I attempted to install pg_repack on a server running PostgreSQL 9.1.13 on
> Ubuntu 12.04. As I didn't find pg_repack in the repository or installed
> extensions, I decided to use pgxn.
>
> I installed pgxnclient from PGDG. To use pgxn I had to install
> postgresql-server-dev-9.1 which installed, as a requirement, libpq-dev. The
> pgxn install failed with "error: unknown type name 'pg_int64'" as described
> in this thread:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/53989C91.6050403@pinpointresearch.com
>
> Further investigation revealed that the only seemingly available libpg-dev
> in the repo is version 9.3.4. The end result is that there are multiple
> versions of postgres_ext.h automatically installed and that pgxnclient as
> installed from the PGDG repo chooses the wrong one:
> /usr/include/postgresql/postgres_ext.h
> /usr/include/postgresql/9.1/server/postgres_ext.h
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt/FAQ#I_want_libpq5_for_version_X.2C_but_there_is_only_version_Y_in_the_repository
tells you how to force PostgreSQL 9.1 libpq rather than the default
(latest stable available). I think this will sort you out.
--
Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
