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To: Josh Kupershmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CREATE EXTENSION: documenting prereqs
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:00:03 -0400
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Josh Kupershmidt <[email protected]> writes:
> Well, obviously I need to go into ./contrib/hstore/ and run make &&
> make install (or install the appropriate -contrib package if I were
> using a packaged build of Postgres). I think it'd be nice to give
> users some hint about this prerequisite. Appendix F [1] discusses
> this, but there's currently no link from [2] to [1]. The way the
> CREATE EXTENSION page reads right now, I could forgive a new user
> thinking he shouldn't need to install any dependencies.
On reflection there are a couple other cross-references that would
be useful here, too. I've committed a modified version of this.
> A complementary approach would be to add an errhint to the "could not
> open extension control file..." error suggesting that the user install
> the contrib package himself, though I'm not sure offhand about the
> wording, especially since a user might be trying to install
> who-knows-what extension.
Yeah, I'm not sure how to do anything useful in one-or-so-lines there.
regards, tom lane
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