How To Install php-pgsql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pgsql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is php-pgsql.x86_64
The php-pgsql add PostgreSQL database support to PHP. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system that supports almost all SQL constructs. PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. If you need back-end support for PostgreSQL, you should install this package in addition to the main php package.
We can use yum to install php-pgsql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install php-pgsql.x86_64.
Install php-pgsql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install php-pgsql.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install php-pgsql.x86_64
How To Uninstall php-pgsql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the php-pgsql.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove php-pgsql.x86_64
php-pgsql.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/php.d/pdo_pgsql.ini
/etc/php.d/pgsql.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_pgsql.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pgsql.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pgsql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.