Re: Connecting and creating db

On 21 April 2011 02:43, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Sandy Keathley" <sandy(at)keathleywebs(dot)com> writes:
[...]
>> 1. logged in as user "postgres", I cannot connect to the database server without first issuing
>> (every time) the command: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/pgsql/lib"
>> This is annoying.
>
> Sounds like the RPM author neglected to see to updating the ldconfig
> data.  If the RPM stuck a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d pointing to
> /usr/pgsql/lib, you should just be able to run /sbin/ldconfig (as root)
> and be good --- otherwise consider doing that manually.
[...]

Did RHEL 4 support /etc/ld.so.conf.d? He might need to put it in
/etc/ld.so.conf.

Sandy, if there's no /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory on the machine, just
add /usr/pgsql/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run /sbin/ldconfig as
mentioned by Tom.

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Michael Wood <esiotrot(at)gmail(dot)com>