Re: Issues with Redhat 4 Postgresql 8.4 and support of libxml

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:05 -0800, araza(at)esri(dot)com wrote:
> What are the issues with Redhat 4 in terms of supporting libxml? I build PostgreSQL 8.4 with --with-libxml option but still getting the following error.

You probably need to tell postgresql to compile against the specific new
version of libxml that you built from source.

>
> STATEMENT: INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, '<foo>abc</foo>');
> ERROR: unsupported XML feature
> LINE 1: INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, '<foo>abc</foo>');
> ^
> DETAIL: This functionality requires the server to be built with libxml support.
> HINT: You need to rebuild PostgreSQL using --with-libxml.
>
> This is what I have done.
>
> 1- ./configure --prefix=/net/volks/volks2/pg84 --with-libxml
> 2- gmake
> 3- gmake install
>
> This is where I have my libxml2 lib
> >ls -l /usr/lib/libxml*.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov 19 11:08 /usr/lib/libxml2.so -> /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 19 11:08 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 -> /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 28 2007 /usr/lib/libxmlparse.so.0 -> libxmlparse.so.0.1.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32456 Nov 15 2006 /usr/lib/libxmlparse.so.0.1.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 28 2007 /usr/lib/libxmltok.so.0 -> libxmltok.so.0.1.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 75576 Nov 15 2006 /usr/lib/libxmltok.so.0.1.0
>
>
> > ls -l /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 19 10:29 /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so -> libxml2.so.2.6.30
> > ls -l /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 19 10:29 /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.6.32
>
> I built libxml2.so (version 2.6.30) from source code.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Ale Raza.
>

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