Re: Missing pg_config on SuSE SLES 12 for PostgreSQL 10

On 4/27/19 12:58 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm investigating on a SuSE Linux SLES 12 server if we could add support
> for PostgreSQL 10 to our Library Management System (currently running on top
> of Oracle 12 and Sybase 15.7) using all kind of languages and API one could imagine.
> 
> I've up and running the server and figured out how to connect (apart of
> psql) with:
> 
> - C code to run SQL commands from char strings
> - ESQL/C code to embed SQL statements into C
> - JDBC
> 
> To get Perl's DBD::Pg compiled now I really do need the pg_config tool,
> but I can't figure out how to get it. I see the following RPM (the ones
> with an 'i' or 'i+' are installed):

Did the compile process complain about not finding pg_config?

What happens if you run?:

whereis pg_config


> 
> # zypper search postg
> ...
>     | libgda-5_0-postgres          | PostgreSQL Provider for GNU Data Access-> | package
> ...
> i+ | postgresql-init              | Init script and other infrastructure fo-> | package
>     | postgresql-init              | Init script and other infrastructure fo-> | srcpackage
> i+ | postgresql-jdbc              | Official JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL       | package
>     | postgresql-jdbc-javadoc      | API docs for postgresql-jdbc              | package
>     | postgresql-unit10            | SI Units for PostgreSQL                   | package
>     | postgresql10                 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
> i+ | postgresql10                 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | package
> i+ | postgresql10-contrib         | Contributed Extensions and Additions to-> | package
> i  | postgresql10-devel           | PostgreSQL development header files and-> | package
> i+ | postgresql10-docs            | HTML Documentation for PostgreSQL         | package
>     | postgresql10-libs            | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
> i+ | postgresql10-libs            | The shared libraries required for any P-> | package
>     | postgresql10-odbc            | PostgreSQL ODBC driver                    | package
>     | postgresql10-plperl          | The Perl procedural language for Postgr-> | package
>     | postgresql10-plpython        | The Python procedural language for Post-> | package
>     | postgresql10-pltcl           | The Tcl procedural language for Postgre-> | package
> i+ | postgresql10-server          | The Programs Needed to Create and Run a-> | package
>     | postgresql10-tcl             | A Tcl client library for PostgreSQL       | package
>     | postgresql10-test            | The test suite distributed with Postgre-> | package
>     | postgresql96                 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | package
>     | postgresql96                 | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
>     | postgresql96-contrib         | Contributed Extensions and Additions to-> | package
>     | postgresql96-docs            | HTML Documentation for PostgreSQL         | package
>     | postgresql96-libs            | Basic Clients and Utilities for Postgre-> | srcpackage
>     | postgresql96-server          | The Programs Needed to Create and Run a-> | package
>     | postgresql_anonymizer10      | Anonymization & Data Masking for Postgr-> | package
>     | split_postgres_dump          | Break a PostgreSQL dump file into pre-d-> | package
> 
> What I do missing to get 'pg_config'? Thanks
> 
>     matthias
> 


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