Fixing pyPgSQL under Fedora

December 02, 2003

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The latest update of Fedora from the APT streams appears to break pyPgSQL. This really sucks for me as my research uses this setup. Luckily, I patched the program to understand that a -RH version is okay. Just run this patch against your source archive and rebuild. I’ll submit it to the main project when sourceforge comes back up.

<font color="#008000">--- ./temp2/pypgsql/pgversion.c 2002-12-01 17:10:51.000000000 -0500</font>
<font color="#008000">+++ ./pypgsql/pgversion.c   2003-12-02 00:07:00.000000000 -0500</font>
<font color="#804000"><b>@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@</b></font>
     if ((*last == 'r') && (*(last+1) == 'c') && isdigit(*(last+2)))
    return (errno != 0);

<font color="#008080">+    if (pgstricmp(last, "-RH") == 0)</font>
<font color="#008080">+       return (errno != 0);</font>
<font color="#008080">+</font>
     return ((errno != 0) || (*last != (char)0));
 }