Leon P Smith

Ok, well I pushed a fix for #26, how much do you want to fix before I release to hackage? I would be willing to review and fix the connection...

Err, I don't recall closing this issue, I don't understand why I would have. :-/

Yeah, postgresql-libpq version 0.9 introduced the requirement for libpq 9.0 or later. The postgresql community is dropping support for 8.4 this July, and the use case for PQescapeIdentifier is pretty...

Also, did you recompile `postgresql-libpq` when you installed the new client library? (You shouldn't have to, but I am curious for other reasons.)

Honestly, I'm not even sure where that message is coming from, it's not coming from `postgresql-libpq` or `cabal`. It has to be some trick Ubuntu is pulling when GHC/Cabal's build...

The current `Setup.hs` sets `--extra-include-dirs` and `--extra-lib-dirs` based on the first `pg_config` that is found in your path. Perhaps these shouldn't be overwritten... but... I probably ought to take the...

Well, I'll definitely try to work on the installation instructions soon, which should help. Since Hackage is a bit funky in the way that the description field is rendered, I'm...

Alternatively, if you track down how Ubuntu is generating that message, you might suggest this sort of improvement there...

My suggestion for finding out what this is being linked against at runtime is to `strace` it. Perhaps there is a better method... but that's the one I know about....

Thanks for the report; unfortunately I personally won't be able to help you much here. But if you do find a solution, please share, and I would be eager for...