From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-08-02T00:47:50+09:00
Subject: Re: DBI-PG problems

While installing DBI I got the error that it could not find the 
postgreSQL libs.  After pointing it to /usr/local/psql/lib and 
/usr/local/psql/include it installed fine.   I then had to install the 
postgres RAA package in order to connect, before that I got the same 
'load_driver' error that Culley was getting.

Brian Candler wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:07:17AM +0900, Michael Garriss wrote:
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>>I'm not sure but I don't think you would have made it through the 
>>install process if libpg in not found.  Try adding the postgres ruby 
>>package...that has to be it.
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>The DBI package is pure ruby and doesn't depend on any C libraries, so it
>installs quite happily. But when you actually try to do
>    DBI::connect('dbi:mysql:')  # for example
>*then* it will try to instantiate the ruby-mysql package, which is a wrapper
>around the mysql C API. If you haven't installed ruby-mysql, then it will
>fail.
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>Regards,
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>Brian.
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>>alex fenton wrote:
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>>>I had problems like this after installing DBD-Pg on Linux & on Cygwin 
>>>when the library files for Postgres itself weren't getting found in 
>>>LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Make sure that the system can find its way to 
>>>/usr/local/postgres/lib (or whatever - it should have files such as 
>>>libpq.so in it). Tweak /etc/ld.so.conf (or the equivalent on OS X - 
>>>sorry, I'm not familiar with how library paths work on that) or 
>>>LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as you need.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>alex
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>>>culley harrelson wrote:
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>>>>I am having trouble with DBI-Pg on os X (ruby 1.6.7).  I installed it 
>>>>successfully using config --with=dbi,dbd_pg but when I try to 
>>>>establish a connection I get:
>>>>
>>>>704 $ ./test.rb
>>>>/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:502:in `load_driver': Could 
>>>>not load driver (No such file to load -- postgres) (DBI::InterfaceError)
>>>>        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:392:in 
>>>>`_get_full_driver'
>>>>        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:372:in `connect'
>>>>        from ./test.rb:4
>>>>        
>>>>
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