FWIW, I don't see the install script in the RHEL5 version RPM either:
# rpm -qpl postgresql-contrib-8.4.4-1PGDG.rhel5.i386.rpm | grep -i uid
/usr/share/doc/postgresql-contrib-8.4.4/uninstall_uuid-ossp.sql
Thanks
Andrew
2010/6/23 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>:
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 09:29 -0400, Andrew Geery wrote:
>> In the postgresql-contrib-8.4.4-1PGDG.rhel4 RPM (downloaded from
>> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.4.4/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-4-i386/),
>> there is no installation script or libraries for the uuid_* functions:
>>
>> # rpm -qlp postgresql-contrib-8.4.4-1PGDG.rhel4.i386.rpm | grep -i uid
>> /usr/share/doc/postgresql-contrib-8.4.4/uninstall_uuid-ossp.sql
>>
>> Is that functionality someplace else and, if not, what is the best way
>> of adding this functionality to a Linux server?
>
> IIRC uuid cannot be compiled on RHEL 4, that's why RHEL 4 packages do
> not have uuid support. You will need to use RHEL5 for that.
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