Re: createuser error

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 11:54, Tom Lane wrote:

> Dan Thompson <dthompson(at)wv-cis(dot)net> writes:
> > I'm using version 7.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
> > I get this error:
> > createuser: relocation error: createuser: undefined symbol: get_progname
>
> This is a fairly common symptom of a library version conflict.
> get_progname() was added to libpq.so as of (IIRC) PG 7.4. What you've
> evidently got is a 7.4 createuser that is trying to use a 7.3-or-older
> libpq.so.
>
> RHEL3 shipped with PG 7.3-something, so the presence of the older
> library isn't surprising. Where did you install the newer one?
> You probably need to fool with ldconfig to get the dynamic linker
> to find the newer library instead of the older. Or simply replace
> the older library with the newer one in /usr/lib.
>
> regards, tom lane