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* Building and installing pg_proctab
@ 2026-01-20 10:01 alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
2026-01-20 10:28 ` Re: Building and installing pg_proctab Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
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From: alexander al (leiden) @ 2026-01-20 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Hello,
picture:
i've got ubuntu 24.04 with postgresql 18 on it. Now I want to install
pg_proctab on it for monitoring reasons.
i downloaded it from
https://gitlab.com/pg_proctab/pg_proctab/
and i tried to make it.
the docs says
make
make install
etc.
but when i do make in the root of pg_proctab i get the error
"Makefile:29: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target '/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop."
so i'm stuck now.
cant find a thing on the big internet and even ai isnt very helpfull.
is there someone who can point me in the right directory?
best regards,
alexander al.
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* Re: Building and installing pg_proctab
2026-01-20 10:01 Building and installing pg_proctab alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
@ 2026-01-20 10:28 ` Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
2026-01-24 12:17 ` Re: Building and installing pg_proctab alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Erik Wienhold @ 2026-01-20 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>; +Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
On 2026-01-20 11:01 +0100, alexander al (leiden) wrote:
> picture:
> i've got ubuntu 24.04 with postgresql 18 on it. Now I want to install
> pg_proctab on it for monitoring reasons.
>
> i downloaded it from
>
> https://gitlab.com/pg_proctab/pg_proctab/
>
> and i tried to make it.
>
> the docs says
>
> make
> make install
> etc.
>
> but when i do make in the root of pg_proctab i get the error
>
> "Makefile:29: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target '/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop."
Judging by the Makefile logic, I think you need to set USE_PGXS=1.
Without that, the Makefile expects the code to be under Postgres'
contrib tree.
--
Erik Wienhold
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* Re: Building and installing pg_proctab
2026-01-20 10:01 Building and installing pg_proctab alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
2026-01-20 10:28 ` Re: Building and installing pg_proctab Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
@ 2026-01-24 12:17 ` alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
2026-01-24 16:03 ` Re: Building and installing pg_proctab Tom Lane <[email protected]>
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: alexander al (leiden) @ 2026-01-24 12:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2026-01-20 at 11:28 +0100, Erik Wienhold wrote:
> On 2026-01-20 11:01 +0100, alexander al (leiden) wrote:
> > picture:
> > i've got ubuntu 24.04 with postgresql 18 on it. Now I want to
> > install
> > pg_proctab on it for monitoring reasons.
> >
> > i downloaded it from
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/pg_proctab/pg_proctab/
> >
> > and i tried to make it.
> >
> > the docs says
> >
> > make
> > make install
> > etc.
> >
> > but when i do make in the root of pg_proctab i get the error
> >
> > "Makefile:29: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
> > make: *** No rule to make target '/contrib/contrib-global.mk'.
> > Stop."
>
> Judging by the Makefile logic, I think you need to set USE_PGXS=1.
> Without that, the Makefile expects the code to be under Postgres'
> contrib tree.
>
Yes, that was true, but than you have to feed the .h files, and those
are only available when you compile postgresql itself. So I pulled
postgresql 18.1 source, installed too much packages and compiled PG.
After this I could compile pg_proctab. Oh well, lessons learned ;)
regards,
alexander
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* Re: Building and installing pg_proctab
2026-01-20 10:01 Building and installing pg_proctab alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
2026-01-20 10:28 ` Re: Building and installing pg_proctab Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
2026-01-24 12:17 ` Re: Building and installing pg_proctab alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
@ 2026-01-24 16:03 ` Tom Lane <[email protected]>
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tom Lane @ 2026-01-24 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>; +Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
"alexander al (leiden)" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, 2026-01-20 at 11:28 +0100, Erik Wienhold wrote:
>> Judging by the Makefile logic, I think you need to set USE_PGXS=1.
> Yes, that was true, but than you have to feed the .h files, and those
> are only available when you compile postgresql itself. So I pulled
> postgresql 18.1 source, installed too much packages and compiled PG.
> After this I could compile pg_proctab. Oh well, lessons learned ;)
If you normally get Postgres via a packaging system: most distros
offer an add-on package that includes our .h files and other stuff
needed to compile dependent code, typically named something like
postgresql-dev or postgresql-devel. Installing that would've saved
you some effort.
regards, tom lane
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