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From: Roberts, Jon <[email protected]>
To: Douglas McNaught <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pgcrypto and dblink
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:49:31 -0500
Message-ID: <1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A92762E9A142@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A92762E9A13B@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com>
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> > I am moving from Windows to Solaris and I need pgcrypto and dblink.
> >  Where are these?  I don't see anything in the configure that
suggests
> it
> >  is even an option.
> 
> They're not handled by 'configure'.  They are in the 'contrib'
> directory in the source tree, and you install them by first installing
> PG itself, then go into the module directory, e.g. 'contrib/pgcrypto',
> and running 'make'.
> 

Thanks so much!

Wouldn't it make sense to add a section to this page that describes the
contrib process?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/install-post.html

I had thought all of the installation options were set using configure.
A post installation step is fine but I think it needs to be documented
as such.




Jon

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