Re: upgrade 7.1.3 -> 7.2b3 - a problem with pl/pgsql

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:23:15AM +0300, Alexey Borzov wrote:
> Well, the problem is as follows: I upgraded from PostgreSQL 7.1.3 to
> PostgreSQL 7.2b3 on our dev. box (following the instructions in the
> docs), and found out that PL/PgSQL functions stopped working...
>
> Digging into this I found out the following:
> Pre-7.2 PostgreSQL installed plpgsql.so into $PREFIX/lib
> (/usr/local/lib in my case), while 7.2b3 did this to
> $PREFIX/lib/postgresql, leaving the old plpgsql.so intact...
>
> pg_dump, on the other hand, dumps CREATE LANGUAGE commands with
> absolute paths... So I ended up with the old plpgsql.so used in the new
> PostgreSQL installation, and this combo wasn't working.
>
> I fixed this by simply overwriting the old file with the new. But I
> still have the question: shouldn't this change be documented
> somewhere?

This is fairly well documented. Look at `PostgreSQL 7.2 Administrator
Guide', section `1.5 Installation Procedure', note following to option
`--mandir'.

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