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Re: PHP & PGSQL



On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:31:49 -0500
Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net> wrote:

> Raquel Rice(raquel@thericehouse.net) is reported to have said:
> > I'm running Woody.  Soon after I installed Debian, I installed
> > PHP4 with MySQL support but not with PostgreSQL.  Now I want to
> > include support for PostgreSQL, but I'm not sure how to
> > recompile PHP to include it ... when it was done automatically
> > for me when installed via apt-get.  Thanks!
> 
> Don't think you have to 'recompile' anything.  I assune that you
> mean that you installed php4-mysql and now want to also (?)
> install the PostgreSQL modules.
> 
> apt-cache search php |grep pgsql yields
> php3-cgi-pgsql - PostgreSQL module for PHP3 (use with php3-cgi)
> php3-pgsql - PostgreSQL module for PHP3 (use with php3)
> php4-pgsql - PostgreSQL module for php4
> 
> So I would load php4-pgsql and make the proper changes in 
> /etc/php4/apache/php.ini to select the required module.
> 
> NOTE:  I have not used postgresql and don't know if you can enable
> both mysql and postgresql in the php.ini file at the same time. 
> It seems likely you can but...?
> 
> :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
> 
> Wayne
> 
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Thank you, everyone, for your words of help.  Wayne's suggestion is
the one I tried, and it worked.  I installed php4-pgsql.  An entry
was made in php.ini which loads the module, and postgresql is
working.  I really appreciate all the advice I was given!

-- 
Raquel
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