Martin thanks, seems ruby postgresql connection drivers need some updating to talk to postgresql-8.2 libdbd-pg-ruby does not find postgresql-8.2
Rescued An ERROR occurred, message:" could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"? Full detail of the complaint: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/DBD/Pg/Pg.rb:111:in `initialize'/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/DBD/Pg/Pg.rb:55:in `new'/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/DBD/Pg/Pg.rb:55:in `connect'/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:424:in `connect'/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:215:in `connect'/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/sisu/0.52/dbi.rb:85:in `read_psql'/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/sisu/0.52/dbi.rb:100:in `connect'/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/sisu/0.52/hub.rb:177:in `select'/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/sisu/0.52/hub.rb:271:in `op'/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/sisu/0.52/hub.rb:483:in `actions'/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/sisu/0.52/hub.rb:567/usr/bin/sisu:8:in `require'/usr/bin/sisu:8 Thanks, I do look forward to using postgresql-8.2 (and even more 8.3 with native tsearch2 and related indexes) so having dependencies sorted for seamless postgresql version upgrades will be 'nice'. I should perhaps cross-post the bug report to libdbd-pg-ruby, (libdbi-ruby, libdbm-ruby) ... but have not yet done so. This being a generic postgresql ruby issue you may wish to do so. again, thanks, Ralph Amissah