Kurt Stephens

I did this little hackage during a boring PGcon 2008 talk…

This patch allows the postgres gem 0.7.9.2008.01.28 to be compiled under Ruby 1.9 against PostgreSQL 8.3.0 client libraries.

It appears to work against a PostgreSQL 8.1 server, but I have not run any detailed testing, yet.

--- ext/extconf.rb.orig	2008-05-22 09:47:06.000000000 -0500
+++ ext/extconf.rb	2008-05-22 09:52:28.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@

+# Ruby 1.9
+PLATFORM = RUBY_PLATFORM unless defined? PLATFORM
+

 # windows compatibility, need different library name
 if(PLATFORM =~ /mingw|mswin/) then
   $libname = '/ms/libpq'
 else

Enjoy!