unable to install pg_repack-1.4.7 on centos and amazon linux

[shabeer22vsb]

Below are the commands
sudo yum install gcc postgresql-devel openssl-devel postgresql-static.x86_64 readline-devel lz4-devel -y
sudo wget https://api.pgxn.org/dist/pg_repack/1.4.7/pg_repack-1.4.7.zip
sudo unzip pg_repack-1.4.7.zip
cd pg_repack-1.4.7
sudo make install
cd bin
./pg_repack —version
which pg_repack

Error
pgut/pgut-fe.c: In function ‘get_username’:
pgut/pgut-fe.c:652:14: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getpwuid’; did you mean ‘geteuid’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
652 | pw = getpwuid(geteuid());
| ^~~~~~~~
| geteuid
pgut/pgut-fe.c:652:12: warning: assignment to ‘struct passwd *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
652 | pw = getpwuid(geteuid());
| ^
pgut/pgut-fe.c:653:23: error: invalid use of undefined type ‘struct passwd’
653 | ret = (pw ? pw->pw_name : NULL);
| ^~

[za-arthur]

warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getpwuid’

It seems that Amazon Linux might not have getpwuid.

You can try to use the latest release 1.5.0. It seems usage of getpwuid by pg_repack was removed a while ago:
944dbf7#diff-abaa7893eaa68a091174eb232d49639709baeefee506db38f4870c0fe9a620bcL652

[Melkij]

Which version of postgresql-devel did yum install? It is not surprising that 1.4.7 will not be built on postgresql-15 and newer.