Thread: Going mad with python pygresql, where is postgres.h???

Please help me -

Where is postgres.h? I can't rebuild pygresql without it, but it's not
on my system. I'm running postgres 7.2.1 - which seems to be working
perfectly nicely without having a postgres.h in its include directory.

It seems to be a common problem. (PHP, pygresql installs are where I
find people asking about it in google, but I have not yet found a
solution.)  If I fudge it by untarring my pg distribution file, and
copying it from the src directory to my include, the pygresql build
still fails. Differently but still badly.

Has *anyone* succeeded with this? I'll happily go to private email to
send full details and post a resolution, but it is currently driving me
crazy.

BTW, I'm on mac OSX (a BSD variant, most unix things work out of the
box) and just upgraded to python 2.3

thanks
Cath
Cath Lawrence,                       Cath.Lawrence@anu.edu.au
Senior Scientific Programmer,  Centre for Bioinformation Science,
John Curtin School of Medical Research (room 4088)
Australian National University,  Canberra ACT 0200
ph: (02) 61257959   mobile: 0421-902694   fax: (02) 61252595

Cath Lawrence <Cath.Lawrence@anu.edu.au> writes:
> Where is postgres.h? I can't rebuild pygresql without it, but it's not
> on my system. I'm running postgres 7.2.1 - which seems to be working
> perfectly nicely without having a postgres.h in its include directory.

Sounds like you didn't install the server-side header files.  As of
somewhere around 7.2, you need to say "make install-all-headers" after
"make install" to get the server-side include files copied into the
installation tree.

            regards, tom lane