Re: upgrade issue

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http://fts.postgresql.org/db/msg.html?mid=1361754

Oleg
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Jodi Kanter wrote:

> We just upgraded one of our Red Hat 7.3 machines from postgresql version
> 7.2.3 to version 7.3.2. All seemed to go smoothly until we received an
> error via our web interface. The following error occurred:
>
> install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load
> '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module
> DBD::Pg: libpq.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 206,
> <OR> line 57.
> at (eval 4) line 3
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3, <OR> line 57.
> Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
> at sessionlib.pl line 1507
>
> The Pg driver is present, and was working before the upgrade. From this
> error I understand that Pg.so can't load libpq.so.2. No surprise since
> there is no /usr/lib/libpq.so.2 It appears that a symlink was created
> to file that does not exist.
>
> We solved the problem by moving libpq.so.2 from another machine. That
> machine has not been upgraded yet and is still running postgresql
> version 7.2.3.
>
> I was hoping someone could give me some insight to why this occured. Did
> we miss some part of the installation? I still have two machines to
> upgrade and would like to avoid this on the others. The rpms all
> appeared to have run without trouble. So, why didn't it install?
>
> Thanks
> Jodi
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
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