[CentOS] CentOS-4.3 and PHP PostgreSQL extension.

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 18:04:53 UTC 2006


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.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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