BUG #16269: psql: error while loading shared libraries

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#1PG Bug reporting form
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 16269
Logged by: Daniel Prince
Email address: infotodaniel@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 10.10
Operating system: CENT OS - 7
Description:

Hi ,
I Recently Upgraded from 9.5.3 to 10.10 on CENT os 7.
initially I configured postgres only with "--with-openssl" , then developer
asked for
libxml need to be enabled .
Then I installed postgres again with "--with-openssl --with-libxml" in a
different data and bin path,
and later up the database with the existing data folder, after this am
getting the Following error:
"psql: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory"
Kindly advise what to do to fix this ?

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: BUG #16269: psql: error while loading shared libraries

PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:

Operating system: CENT OS - 7

I Recently Upgraded from 9.5.3 to 10.10 on CENT os 7.
initially I configured postgres only with "--with-openssl" , then developer
asked for
libxml need to be enabled .
Then I installed postgres again with "--with-openssl --with-libxml" in a
different data and bin path,
and later up the database with the existing data folder, after this am
getting the Following error:
"psql: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory"
Kindly advise what to do to fix this ?

Linux isn't terribly friendly to installing shared libraries in
nonstandard places. If you want to do that, you'll need to
adjust the dynamic loader's search path -- "man ldconfig"
will help.

regards, tom lane