Thread: pg_config -less

A local installation of 9.0 does not seem to include pg_config. (not
with pg_dump pg_ctl etc, no man page)

This is a Suse box (openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64)).

Is it possible to dig around for the info returned from pg_config
--configure (especially uuid support)?

Thanks.

Rob Sargent <rsargent@xmission.com> writes:
> A local installation of 9.0 does not seem to include pg_config. (not
> with pg_dump pg_ctl etc, no man page)

> This is a Suse box (openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64)).

Most likely, Suse's packager decided to put it in the postgresql-devel
subpackage (or maybe they spell it postgresql-dev or something else).
It should certainly be available somewhere from them --- if not,
file a packaging bug report.
        regards, tom lane

Absolutely correct.  The dev package was later installed so I got my
answer (no real uuid support) but I was wondering if it was possible to
get that sort of info from psql directly.

On 09/23/2010 08:49 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Sargent <rsargent@xmission.com> writes:
>> A local installation of 9.0 does not seem to include pg_config. (not
>> with pg_dump pg_ctl etc, no man page)
> 
>> This is a Suse box (openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64)).
> 
> Most likely, Suse's packager decided to put it in the postgresql-devel
> subpackage (or maybe they spell it postgresql-dev or something else).
> It should certainly be available somewhere from them --- if not,
> file a packaging bug report.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

And while on the topic of uuid (again), building postgres 9 from source
seems to transpose the library name: libossp-uuid v. libuuid-ossp.  I
had to put in a simlink to get configure to agree I had the library (rev
1.6.2 from ossp.org)


On 09/23/2010 08:49 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Sargent <rsargent@xmission.com> writes:
>> A local installation of 9.0 does not seem to include pg_config. (not
>> with pg_dump pg_ctl etc, no man page)
> 
>> This is a Suse box (openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64)).
> 
> Most likely, Suse's packager decided to put it in the postgresql-devel
> subpackage (or maybe they spell it postgresql-dev or something else).
> It should certainly be available somewhere from them --- if not,
> file a packaging bug report.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
>