Re: php 4.2 postgresql 7.3 help

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:15, Nick Gazaloff wrote:
> > You'll need to recompile PHP against the 7.3 headers and libraries.
>
> No, it's possible to create a link like this:
>
> cd $PGHOME/lib
> ln -s libpq.so.3 libpq.so.2
> ldconfig

It's possible, but it's a horrible kludge.  The API has changed, so the
library has a different soname.  That is deliberate; a program that has
been built with one version of the library will not necessarily work
with a different version; you could cause segfaults or other unexpected
results.

The proper solution is to update the PHP program or to install an older
version of the library - you can extract one from a binary distribution
of 7.2.x, or build 7.2.4 from source.

Two different versions of the library can coexist; the newer one should
be linked to libpq.so, for compiling new programs.

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