Thanks Tom,
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "P Kapat" <kap4lin@gmail.com> writes:
>> If I understand correctly, the shared libraries for postgis should be
>> inside $PKGLIBDIR for the server to see them. Is there any userland
>> configuration (like adding $HOME/usr/local/lib to ~/.psqlrc) that will
>> solve this?
>
> Do you have superuser privs on the database? If so, you could try
> altering the SQL files for postgis etc to reference the shared libraries
> where you put them. But that likely won't work if SELinux is enabled
> on the system.
As it happens, I do have superuser privs on the database but (as it
also happens!) SELinux is enabled on this system.
> If you don't have superuser then you have no hope of installing these
> modules without admin intervention, because you can't execute the CREATE
> FUNCTION commands, independently of where the shlibs are.
Two questions in that case:
1. How should the admin go about adding $HOME/usr/local/lib to $PKGLIBDIR?
2. (this is extraneous to the current issue) How is ~/.psqlrc useful
to me? Links to any HOWTOS / Docs will be much appreciated.
> regards, tom lane
Regards,
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PK
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