[postgis-devel] 1.3.4 RC3

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Obe, Regina wrote:
> FWIW, switching my 8.3 on OpenSUSE  to run on the default port 5432
> makes make check check the right version.  So I guess make check is just
> hard-coded to assume postgresql is on the default port and I presume
> always been that way.
> 
> All checks pass with the Linux PostgreSQL binary EnterpriseDb 8.3.3
> provided one-click install.   I haven't tried with the 8.3.5 one-click
> install, but assume it would work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina


Hi Regina,

libpq always obeys the PGPORT environment variable to choose the default 
port, so depending upon your shell on OpenSUSE you can set this for the 
duration of the session using either of the following:

	export PGPORT=5433	(bash)
	setenv PGPORT 5433	(tcsh)

Once this is set, "make check" (and indeed any other applications which 
use libpq) will use this as the default connection port. I use a similar 
mechanism to allow multiple versions of PostgreSQL on my workstation here.


HTH,

Mark.

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