[postgis-users] About $libdir

[Benjamin Thelen]

Hi,

Is there a way to find out, what $libdir contains? Something like echo
$libdir or print $libdir?

I've changed $libdir to /usr/local/pgsql/lib and it now seem to work fine.
There are at the beginning of the output a few messages, which I don't
understand:


psql:../postgis.sql:18: NOTICE:  ProcedureCreate: type histogram2d is not
yet defined
psql:../postgis.sql:23: NOTICE:  Argument type "histogram2d" is only a shell
psql:../postgis.sql:39: NOTICE:  ProcedureCreate: type box3d is not yet
defined
psql:../postgis.sql:44: NOTICE:  Argument type "box3d" is only a shell
psql:../postgis.sql:59: NOTICE:  ProcedureCreate: type spheroid is not yet
defined
psql:../postgis.sql:64: NOTICE:  Argument type "spheroid" is only a shell
psql:../postgis.sql:79: NOTICE:  ProcedureCreate: type wkb is not yet
defined
psql:../postgis.sql:84: NOTICE:  Argument type "wkb" is only a shell
psql:../postgis.sql:99: NOTICE:  ProcedureCreate: type chip is not yet
defined
psql:../postgis.sql:104: NOTICE:  Argument type "chip" is only a shell
psql:../postgis.sql:120: NOTICE:  ProcedureCreate: type geometry is not yet
defined
psql:../postgis.sql:125: NOTICE:  Argument type "geometry" is only a shell
psql:../postgis.sql:154: NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create
implicit index 'spatial_ref_sys_pkey' for table 'spatial_ref_sys'
psql:../postgis.sql:174: NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create
implicit index 'geometry_columns_pk' for table 'geometry_columns'


Well, the question is, why does $libdir not work? How can I make it work?
Maybe it was not the best idea to change $libdir into the absolute path?
And finally, do those messages above mean some parts of postgis will not
work correctly and how can I "repair" that?


Thanks!
Benjamin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net]On Behalf Of Paul
> Ramsey
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 4:56 PM
> To: PostGIS Discussion
> Subject: [postgis-users] About $libdir
>
>
> The reason there are references to $libdir in the postgis.sql file is
> because the PgSQL developers told me that this was the way to get
> path-independant references to the PgSQL extension directories.  I was
> hoping that a combination of $libdir and future generic library naming
> would allow simple pg_dump | psql migrations between different server
> instances.
>
> It seems like some people are having no end of troubles with $libdir
> which others are doing just fine.  Ironically, we had less comments and
> problems when we just had the full paths references in the postgis.sql
> file.
>
>       Paul Ramsey
>       Refractions Research
>       Email: pramsey at refractions.net
>       Phone: (250) 885-0632
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