On 8/7/11 10:30 AM, antismarmy wrote:
Hello community, I need to execute pgsql2shp from the command line, but I am not interested in the other functionalities offered by postgresql on this machine. I have been told that installing an instance of a spatial database on the machine in question just to serve as a workaround for one utility executable is not something that IT will approve of, due to the extra overhead of software& DB maintenance, security configuration and server system resources... Is there a way to isolate all of the files necessary for a specific executable (in my case pgsql2shp.exe) from the postgresql 8.3 binaries without using the installer program.
(sorry for the last post ... here's what I meant to send.) Get the Postgres source code, and configure it to install into your home directory. The configure command has an option for this: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/postgres Then follow the make and install directives. You'll end up with a complete running Postgres system in your $HOME/postgres directory. At that point, you can delete the source code plus everything in the $HOME/postgres/bin directory except the one program you want. Set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include $HOME/postgres/lib, and you should be able to run the binaries. You can probably delete some of the libraries in $HOME/postgres/lib too that aren't used by the program you want. Craig
My collegue has already tried the following: "I did download a copy of the postgresql 8.3 binaries without the installer program and extracted a copy of psql.exe and put it on the application server in d:\database_apps, along with a dll file dependency "ssleay32.dll". I added "d:\database_apps" to the system PATH in hopes that psql.exe could be invoked at a command prompt without specifying where it was. Unfortunately this did not work. The executable needs something else that isn't there, and I am afraid it might be other Windows system 32-bit dlls that don't exist on a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008." Thanks, Stacy -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/All-the-functionality-I-need-is-pgsql2shp-exe-isolated-installation-tp4675350p4675350.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - admin mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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