Re: [GENERAL] Strange error with Pg.so

You don't say what system you're on, but it's clearly some variant of
Unix. Check to see if there's an environment variable that controls
the search path for dynamically loaded libraries, and whether it's
different in the two environments. Might check the rest of the
environment for differences as well.

<mike

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:13:19 +0100 (CET)
> From: Kaare Rasmussen <kar(at)webline(dot)dk>
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Strange error with Pg.so
>
> I have a strange error with Pg.so. I have a Perl program that should
> run as a CGI script.
>
> Strangely enough, it works if I run it from the command line now (at
> least it outputs a html page), but when I try it from my web server it
> complains with an error like
>
> [Sat Dec 26 11:02:48 1998] [error] Can't load
> '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i586-linux/auto/Pg/Pg.so' for module Pg:
> Unable to resolve symbol at
> /usr/lib/perl5/i586-linux/5.00404/DynaLoader.pm line 166.
>
> and this is what Dynaloader has to say about it:
>
> # Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from
> # this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm.
> # Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation
> # C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being
> # in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code
> # it executed.
>
> What is surprising for me is that the error only appears when run
> through the web server.
>
> It happens before any action is taken; it complains about the "use Pg;"
> statement
>
> Well, I'm using PostgreSQL 6.3.2, maybe I should try to install 6.4.1?
>
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