Re: how to install just client libraries on windows?

On 12/02/2009 06:59 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 2/12/2009 7:10 AM, raf wrote:
>
>> <aside>
>> not only that, but on a windows host on which i had
>> installed the 8.3 client and server software, when i
>> uninstalled the server leaving the client software behind,
>> the client software was no longer complete and couldn't
>> be used (i.e. python's pygresql module failed to load
>> even though libpq.dll was there because something else
>> wasn't there). i had to rsync files over from another
>> host that had only had the client software installed.
>> </aside>
>
> Ouch. The installer is not not properly tracking the sharing of DLLs
> between components.
>
>>> The easiest way to just get libpq and the
>>> supporting libraries would be from the tarball distros:
>>> http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
>>>
>>> Just extract, and grab the DLLs.
>>
>> thanks but no thanks. i can see where this might lead.
>> i don't know what files are needed and what ones aren't.
>> it probably won't just be the dlls that are needed and
>> i'll waste half a day experimenting to see what's really
>> needed. plus it only helps me. it doesn't help anyone else.
>
> Dependency Walker (depends.exe) from dependencywalker.com takes care
> of that. It really is trivial. However, I agree that it's a cludgy way
> to do things that shouldn't be necessary.
>
> It'd be good to see a simple MSI installer of the client libs. The Pg
> server installer could always just bundle the client lib installer,
> but permit it to be distributed separately as well. That'd save on
> install complexity and size as well.
>
> EnterpriseDB are currently handling the creation of the binary
> installers for PostgreSQL. I've been talking with them about some
> other installer issues (where the interferes with system libraries on
> Linux) too, so hopefully they'll be doing some work on their
> installers soon. Maybe they can look at splitting the client library
> installer into a separate package too.
>
> Dave: Are there sources available for the EnterpriseDB
> installer/packaging system? I'd like to get into the linux library
> path patcking problem myself, since nobody at EDB seemed to be
> interested in the issues when discussed on -general last week.
Craig, we always hear to what the community says as that will help us
improve the installer a lot. We have already committed a fix as per the
discussion and are in a process of verifying the changes and will be
hoping to release it very soon.

>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>

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Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com>, the Enterprise Postgres
<http://www.enterprisedb.com> company.