Re: Missing pg_config on SuSE SLES 12 for PostgreSQL 10

On 4/27/19 12:58 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm investigating on a SuSE Linux SLES 12 server if we could add support
> for PostgreSQL 10 to our Library Management System (currently running on top
> of Oracle 12 and Sybase 15.7) using all kind of languages and API one could imagine.
>
> I've up and running the server and figured out how to connect (apart of
> psql) with:
>
> - C code to run SQL commands from char strings
> - ESQL/C code to embed SQL statements into C
> - JDBC
>
> To get Perl's DBD::Pg compiled now I really do need the pg_config tool,
> but I can't figure out how to get it. I see the following RPM (the ones
> with an 'i' or 'i+' are installed):

Did the compile process complain about not finding pg_config?

What happens if you run?:

whereis pg_config

>
> # zypper search postg
> ...
> | libgda-5_0-postgres | PostgreSQL Provider for GNU Data Access-> | package
> ...
> i+ | postgresql-init | Init script and other infrastructure fo-> | package
> | postgresql-init | Init script and other infrastructure fo-> | srcpackage
> i+ | postgresql-jdbc | Official JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL | package
> | postgresql-jdbc-javadoc | API docs for postgresql-jdbc | package
> | postgresql-unit10 | SI Units for PostgreSQL | package
> | postgresql10 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
> i+ | postgresql10 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | package
> i+ | postgresql10-contrib | Contributed Extensions and Additions to-> | package
> i | postgresql10-devel | PostgreSQL development header files and-> | package
> i+ | postgresql10-docs | HTML Documentation for PostgreSQL | package
> | postgresql10-libs | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
> i+ | postgresql10-libs | The shared libraries required for any P-> | package
> | postgresql10-odbc | PostgreSQL ODBC driver | package
> | postgresql10-plperl | The Perl procedural language for Postgr-> | package
> | postgresql10-plpython | The Python procedural language for Post-> | package
> | postgresql10-pltcl | The Tcl procedural language for Postgre-> | package
> i+ | postgresql10-server | The Programs Needed to Create and Run a-> | package
> | postgresql10-tcl | A Tcl client library for PostgreSQL | package
> | postgresql10-test | The test suite distributed with Postgre-> | package
> | postgresql96 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | package
> | postgresql96 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
> | postgresql96-contrib | Contributed Extensions and Additions to-> | package
> | postgresql96-docs | HTML Documentation for PostgreSQL | package
> | postgresql96-libs | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
> | postgresql96-server | The Programs Needed to Create and Run a-> | package
> | postgresql_anonymizer10 | Anonymization & Data Masking for Postgr-> | package
> | split_postgres_dump | Break a PostgreSQL dump file into pre-d-> | package
>
> What I do missing to get 'pg_config'? Thanks
>
> matthias
>

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