Re: Fwd: Web Hosting support for pgsql in PHP

On 30/12/2013 20:28, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jeff Silberberg <jms(at)dapage(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I moved a number of sites a few months ago to site5 web hosting but
>> have run into an issue where they refuse to include the support for pgsql
>> into the php environment. Although they did try to install it with pecl
>> that failed with no pg_config and missing libpg-fe.h. It appears that the
>> php modules do not install with out the developer tools installed, An I
>> have just run into a road block attempting to get this done. They refuse.
>> Note, I am not asking them to support a postgresql database, just include
>> the support in PHP so I can access an existing database remotely.
>
> What kind of server are they using? Assuming it's debian / ubuntu all
> they need to do is install the following packages on your virtual
> server:
>
> php5-pgsql
> phppgadmin
> postgresql
> postgresql-client
> postgresql-common
>
> They sound lost.

From the OP's post on the pgsql-php list, it sounds like shared hosting
via CPanel.... I've had pretty awful experience with Irish ISPs, who -
if they support Postgres at all - generally provide ancient versions in
their shared hosting offerings.

Ray.

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