CentOS - Jul 2006 - CentOS-4.3 and PHP PostgreSQL extension.

I need to enable pg support on one of my CentOS servers. I know nothing about
PHP but DRUPAL requires a DB backend and we have standardized on pg rather
than mysql.  The PHP.net page devoted to the subject of pg says that to enable
pg support PHP must be built with the flag "--with-pgsql[=DIR]" and
that the
required support extension must be loaded via the /etc/php.ini file with the
statement "extension=pgsql.so".

However, I have tried to find this file "pgsql.so" on the CentOS
server before
proceeding blindly and have come up empty.  Can somebody here give me some
detailed help on getting DRUPAL running with PsotgreSQL under CentOS; or at
least point me to a site where I can find out how to obtatin the necessary and
appropriate pgsql.so file?  I cannot seem to find the necessary information on
either php.net or postgresql.org.

Regards,
Jim

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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:47:26PM -0400, James B. Byrne enlightened
us:
> I need to enable pg support on one of my CentOS servers. I know nothing
about
> PHP but DRUPAL requires a DB backend and we have standardized on pg rather
> than mysql.  The PHP.net page devoted to the subject of pg says that to
enable
> pg support PHP must be built with the flag "--with-pgsql[=DIR]"
and that the
> required support extension must be loaded via the /etc/php.ini file with
the
> statement "extension=pgsql.so".
> 
> However, I have tried to find this file "pgsql.so" on the CentOS
server before
> proceeding blindly and have come up empty.  Can somebody here give me some
> detailed help on getting DRUPAL running with PsotgreSQL under CentOS; or at
> least point me to a site where I can find out how to obtatin the necessary
and
> appropriate pgsql.so file?  I cannot seem to find the necessary information
on
> either php.net or postgresql.org.
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
yum holds your answer.

Hint: Use the list command.

Matt

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James B. Byrne wrote:
> I need to enable pg support on one of my CentOS servers. I know nothing
about
> PHP but DRUPAL requires a DB backend and we have standardized on pg rather
> than mysql.  The PHP.net page devoted to the subject of pg says that to
enable
> pg support PHP must be built with the flag "--with-pgsql[=DIR]"
and that the
> required support extension must be loaded via the /etc/php.ini file with
the
> statement "extension=pgsql.so".
> 
> However, I have tried to find this file "pgsql.so" on the CentOS
server before
> proceeding blindly and have come up empty.  Can somebody here give me some
> detailed help on getting DRUPAL running with PsotgreSQL under CentOS; or at
> least point me to a site where I can find out how to obtatin the necessary
and
> appropriate pgsql.so file?  I cannot seem to find the necessary information
on
> either php.net or postgresql.org.
> 
yum whatprovides pgsql.so

yum install php-pgsql.i386

Max

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 13:47 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I need to enable pg support on one of my CentOS servers. I know nothing
about
> PHP but DRUPAL requires a DB backend and we have standardized on pg rather
> than mysql.  The PHP.net page devoted to the subject of pg says that to
enable
> pg support PHP must be built with the flag "--with-pgsql[=DIR]"
and that the
> required support extension must be loaded via the /etc/php.ini file with
the
> statement "extension=pgsql.so".
> 
> However, I have tried to find this file "pgsql.so" on the CentOS
server before
> proceeding blindly and have come up empty.  Can somebody here give me some
> detailed help on getting DRUPAL running with PsotgreSQL under CentOS; or at
> least point me to a site where I can find out how to obtatin the necessary
and
> appropriate pgsql.so file?  I cannot seem to find the necessary information
on
> either php.net or postgresql.org.
I haven't run this, but I'd expect:
yum install php-pgsql
to be the first step.

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   lesmikesell at gmail.com

James B. Byrne wrote:
> I need to enable pg support on one of my CentOS servers. I know nothing
about
> PHP but DRUPAL requires a DB backend and we have standardized on pg rather
> than mysql.  The PHP.net page devoted to the subject of pg says that to
enable
Hi Jim,

   One important note: if you are going to install Drupal (or any type 
of software for that matter) onto your server, be sure and subscribe to 
their security mailing list. Every once in a while someone finds a 
critical error which usually needs to be patched as soon as possible. If 
you do not stay on top of it, you could get your server owned pretty 
quickly.

Patrick


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On: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:54:49 -0400, "Max H." <btmanmeh at
verizon.net> wrote:


> yum whatprovides pgsql.so
>
> yum install php-pgsql.i386
Thank you very much.

Regards,
Jim

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