[GRASS-user] grass and postresql drivers for remote db

G. Allegri giohappy at gmail.com
Sun Nov 5 18:42:58 EST 2006


Thanks everyone, I'll have a look to my ubuntu repository packages:
- postgresql-client-8.1
- postgresql-dev (even if this seems to be related to version 7.5.21...)
Giovanni


2006/11/5, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:
>
> G. Allegri wrote:
>
> > I need to use a remote Postgresql connection with Grass. When compiling
it I
> > have to set the "--with-postgres" option during configuration but is it
> > required to have postgresql installed to enable it? I know that the
postgres
> > libraries are needed, is it enough to download them?
>
> To compile GRASS with PostgreSQL support, you need to have the
> PostgreSQL libraries and headers installed on the build system. You
> don't need to install the server.
>
> If your distribution has a package named something like "libpq" or
> "posgresql-client", you need that, and also the corresponding -devel
> package if there is one.
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>
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