Pgpool install - libpq is not installed or libpq is old

Instead of compiling PgPool, why not just install it from package management? yum install postgresql-pgpool-II   I don't use CentOS, but that's it's package name in Fedora 17, and the two are usually consistent. Since you're using a PostgreSQL 9.2 installed via Yum on CentOS 5, you're obviously using a 3rd party packaging of PostgreSQL, so you're likely to be using the yum.postgresql.org repository. This repository claims to contain PgPool-II, so try: yum search pgpool   and see if you find any packages. Get details on them with: yum info packagename   Otherwise, for compiling PgPool you need the development package for PostgreSQL installed:   yum install postgresql-devel   If that alone doesn't do the trick, try making sure pg_config is on the PATH: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/pgsql-9.2/bin ./configure   You shouldn't need to specify a libdir or includedir explicitly, as the're in /usr/include and /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64) on CentOS and those are default search locations for configure and gcc. It's most likely that you just don't have the development headers installed.