Re: Doing an LDAP lookup from a SQL SELECT

I copied the file to the "lib" directory under the PostgreSQL install and ran the SQL command:

CREATE FUNCTION ldap_search(text, text, text, text,text,text) RETURNS SETOF RECORD AS 'libdblink-ldap.dll', 'pg_ldap_search' LANGUAGE C STABLE;

it gave me the following error:

ERROR: incompatible library "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/lib/libdblink-ldap.dll": missing magic block
SQL state: XX000
Hint: Extension libraries are required to use the PG_MODULE_MAGIC macro.

any thoughts? TNX David

David R Robison wrote:

Thanks, I found the extension but no documentation on how to install it or use it. Can you give me some pointers? TNX David

Magnus Hagander wrote:

David R Robison wrote: 

I have an LDAP directory that contains contact information and a
PostgreSQL table that has contact names. What I want to do is write a
SELECT that will join the names in the table with the data in the LDAP
directory (such as phone number, e-mail address, etc). Is this possible?
Has anyone done this before?   

Take a look at dblink-ldap, available on pgFoundry. It's not exactly
polished :-), but it works for a lot of cases. I've used it for doing
exactly what you're trying to do here.

//Magnus

 

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