PostgreSQL ODBC driver installation on Linux
After I installed PostgreSQL 9.3 on my Fedora 20 I soon realized that I need PostgreSQL ODBC as well, because I’ll be using Oracle DG4ODBC to connect to PostgreSQL cluster.
I could simply install PostgreSQL ODBC with yum:
$ sudo yum install postgresql-odbc
…and this is perhaps the best option on a long run (in general I prefer using yum as much as possible, even if I sacrifice of not having the latest version of some software), but in this particular case I had a good reason to install the very last version from source.
First download the latest PostgreSQL ODBC driver from:
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/src/
$ wget http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/versions/src/psqlodbc-09.03.0100.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf psqlodbc-09.03.0100.tar.gz $ ./configure --with-libpq=/usr/pgsql-9.3 --disable-openssl $ make $ sudo make install
Installation will end with the following instructions (excerpt):
Libraries have been installed in: /usr/local/lib If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking and do at least one of the following: - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during execution - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable during linking - use the `-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf' See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
A quick check if libraries are indeed there:
$ ls -la /usr/local/lib total 1960 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 44 Dec 29 16:08 . drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4096 Dec 25 22:52 .. -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 971 Dec 29 16:08 psqlodbcw.la -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1996735 Dec 29 16:08 psqlodbcw.so
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