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Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:22:27 -0700
From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
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Subject: Re: All the functionality I need is pgsql2shp.exe-- isolated
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On 8/7/11 10:30 AM, antismarmy wrote:
> Hello community,
>
> I need to execute pgsql2shp from the command line, but I am not interested
> in the other functionalities offered by postgresql on this machine. I have
> been told that installing an instance of a spatial database on the machine
> in question just to serve as a workaround for one utility executable is not
> something that IT will approve of, due to the extra overhead of software&
> DB maintenance, security configuration and server system resources...
>
> Is there a way to isolate all of the files necessary for a specific
> executable (in my case pgsql2shp.exe) from the postgresql 8.3 binaries
> without using the installer program.
(sorry for the last post ... here's what I meant to send.)

Get the Postgres source code, and configure it to install into your home directory.  The configure command has an option for this:

   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/postgres

Then follow the make and install directives.  You'll end up with a complete running Postgres system in your $HOME/postgres directory.  At that point, you can delete the source code plus everything in the $HOME/postgres/bin directory except the one program you want.  Set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include $HOME/postgres/lib, and you should be able to run the binaries.  You can probably delete some of the libraries in $HOME/postgres/lib too that aren't used by the program you want.

Craig
> My collegue has already tried the following:
> "I did download a copy of the postgresql 8.3 binaries without the installer
> program and extracted a copy of psql.exe and put it on the application
> server in d:\database_apps, along with a dll file dependency "ssleay32.dll".
> I added "d:\database_apps" to the system PATH in hopes that psql.exe could
> be invoked at a command prompt without specifying where it was.
> Unfortunately this did not work. The executable needs something else that
> isn't there, and I am afraid it might be other Windows system 32-bit dlls
> that don't exist on a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008."
>
> Thanks,
> Stacy
>
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