Re: In search of: libpgsql

[Markus Mayer <a9325155@unet.univie.ac.at>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:17:31PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
 
> ldconfig -v | grep libpgsql
> 
> it does not find libpgsql.  How come?

The shared library just isn't called libpgsql.so, but libpq.so (that dates
back to the day when PostgreSQL was simply Postgres, I guess). How to find
out if you don't already know?

$ apt-cache search libpgsql
libpgsql2 - Shared library libpq.so.2 for PostgreSQL
postgresql-dev - Header files for libpq (postgresql library)
libpgsql-ruby - PostgreSQL extension module for programming language Ruby
netsaint-plugins-pgsql - check_pgsql plugin for NetSaint

Ok, so the package's called libpgsql2.

$ dpkg -L libpgsql2 | fgrep .so
/usr/lib/libpq++.so.4.0
/usr/lib/libpq.so.2.2
/usr/lib/libpgeasy.so.2.2
/usr/lib/libpq++.so.4
/usr/lib/libpq.so.2
/usr/lib/libpgeasy.so.2

Hurray, /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.2 and /usr/lib/libpq.so.2 are what we were
looking for.

Regards,
Markus