Re: [PHP] 7.3.1 BREAKS COMPATIBILITY with the latest PHP4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

So this is safe?

...Shouldn't PostgreSQL-latest work *OUT OF THE BOX* with PHP-latest (and
ideally several previous versions as well)??? If all that's needed for a
fix is a symlink, shouldn't the symlink be made by the install process
itself?


On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Timothy Brier wrote:

> I had this problem when I upgraded from 7.3.0 to 7.3.1.
> I use RedHat 8.0.  I do not have libpq.so.2 on the system.
>
> I used the following command:
>
> ln /usr/lib/libpg.so.3   /usr/lib/libpg.so.2 -s
>
> Restarted Apache, and everything worked fine.
>
>
> Tim.
>
>
> Jessica Blank wrote:
>
> >I am happy for you-- you got YOUR copy of PHP 4.3.0 working with YOUR copy
> >of PostgreSQL 7.3.1. However, two questions:
> >
> >1) How can I do the same?
> >2) Were you previously using PostgreSQL 7.3.0? If so, you most likely HAD
> >A COPY of libpq.so.2 still floating about in /usr/local/postgres/lib or
> >wherever... A mediocre and kluge-y solution at best. (So everyone
> >installing PostgreSQL 7.3.x with PHP for the first time is required to
> >FIRST install 7.3.0, THEN install 7.3.1 atop it, to get both versions of
> >libpq.so?  That would be a horrendous band-aid-ish solution. C'mon, we're
> >all above that sort of rubbish. This is PostgreSQL, not Microsoft SQL
> >Server. ;) )
> >
> >Can you show me the output of 'ls' on your PostgreSQL libs directory
> >please?
> >
> >--Jessica
> >
> >On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, John Chapman wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>>The latest PHP4 (php-4.3.0) WILL NOT work with 7.3.1, since it (PHP)
> >>>expects there to be libpq.so.2, whereas 7.3.1 only provides libpq.so.3
> >>>...
> >>>
> >>>... I am really astonished that I could not find anyone else who had
> >>>this problem. Am I doing something horridly wrong?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I don't know the answer. However, I do not agree with your assertion
> >>above. Note the following:
> >>
> >>
> >>root@db:/usr/local/apache/htdocs# psql -V
> >>psql (PostgreSQL) 7.3.1
> >>contains support for command-line editing
> >>root@db:/usr/local/apache/htdocs# telnet localhost 80
> >>Trying 127.0.0.1...
> >>Connected to localhost.
> >>Escape character is '^]'.
> >>HEAD / HTTP/1.0
> >>
> >>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >>Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:20:20 GMT
> >>Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.0
> >>Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:30:19 GMT
> >>ETag: "20cef-0-3e39996b"
> >>Accept-Ranges: bytes
> >>Content-Length: 0
> >>Connection: close
> >>Content-Type: text/html
> >>
> >>Connection closed by foreign host.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
> >                            --Jessica
> >
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