Oliver Kohll wrote: > I have the same issue as this poster with libpq.so.4: > http://www.nabble.com/8.3.0-upgrade-td16093803.html > > In short, I've upgraded to 8.3.1 from 8.1 on RHEL 4 (with > some CentOS packages). I have apps with dependencies of > libpq.so.4 but this is no longer available. 8.3.1 provides > libpq.so.5 and the compat-libs provide libpq.so.3. Strange; does anybody know why? > At the moment maintaining package management integrity is not > a must - getting back to 100% package-controlled files can > wait until the machine is replaced. Upgrading the dependent > software is not an option. > With that in mind, any suggestions on options? > > What I've thought of trying so far is > 1) creating a symlink called libpq.so.4 towards libpq.so.5 - > slightly dangerous due to possible API changes? Don't even think about it. > 2) extracting a copy of libpq.so.4 from the previous RPM > release of postgres and manually uploading it You can do that if all else fails. > 3) building a custom compat package - I don't know how to do > this though. Then that's probably not an option for you... Yours, Laurenz Albe
