From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Reconfiguring active PostgreSQL instance
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:00:48 +0200
Message-ID: <5cc502e1-db7a-bdeb-847b-3bf8e483d016@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
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On 21/12/21 3:42 μ.μ., Reno, Natalie wrote:
>
> We provide a PostgreSQL instance that we configure ourselves. An application is now needing the uuid-ossp extension which requires the –with-uuid=ossp flag added to the configuration. When we did
> the original configuration, we did the entire world which means the libraries are available. Is there any way to add this to the configuration without having to re-run the make and installs? Or is
> there a way around this like copying the .sql and .lib files to the appropriate directories? Or can the configure statement be run again with just the new flag?
>
My gut is telling me you won't need to recompile. (since you are compiling from the source tree, with the source include files), but you need to check.
Why don't you give it a try the easy way first? Do you have a test system?
>
> Here is what we run for each install:
>
> ./configure --prefix=${POSTGRES_DIR} --bindir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/bin --sbindir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/sbin --libexecdir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/libexec --sysconfdir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/etc
> --libdir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/lib --includedir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/include --datadir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/data --mandir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/man --docdir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/doc --htmldir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/doc
> --dvidir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/doc --pdfdir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/doc --psdir=${POSTGRES_DIR}/doc --with-perl --with-systemd --with-pam
>
> make world
>
> make install
>
> make install-docs
>
> make install-world
>
> Here is what is in the contrib directory:
>
> /u01/app/postgres/product/postgresql/contrib/uuid-ossp>ls
>
> expected/ Makefile sql/ uuid-ossp--1.0--1.1.sql uuid-ossp--1.1.sql uuid-ossp.c uuid-ossp.control uuid-ossp--unpackaged--1.0.sql
>
> */Natalie Reno (she/her/hers)/*
>
> Lead Database Administrator
>
> Database Infrastructure Team
>
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>
> /Cincinnati Children's Hospital/
>
> natalie.reno@cchmc.org <mailto:natalie.reno@cchmc.org>
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> 513.803.5370
>
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Achilleas Mantzios
DBA, Analyst, IT Lead
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Dynacom Tankers Mgmt
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