After upgrade postgresql 8.1 to 9.0 ive noticed issues with libraries dependency. Postgresql works fine (connection, queries).
yum list postgresql*
Installed
$ gem --version 1.3.7 $ ruby --version ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-linux] $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) $ uname -m x86_64 sudo yum list installed | grep postgre (see what you have installed) sudo yum list available | grep postgre (I was missing postgresql-devel) sudo yum install postgresql-devel (I installed it) sudo gem install pg (no error this time!) $ gem list --local | grep pg pg (0.11.0)