Thank you Tom. I have already started running queries from the corresponding extension. Let's see how far I get! :)
Regards,
Nandish
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Nandish Jayaram <njayaram@pivotal.io> writes: > I have been trying to get pgpointcloud running on greenplum 5.0 database. > This might seem like a convoluted topic to discuss on this mailing list, but > the reason I am asking here is that Greenplum 5 is based on postgres 8.4 > and pgpointcloud requires at least postgres 9.0 it seems.
[ scratches head... ] The whole concept of extensions came in with PG 9.1. So unless Greenplum cherry-picked that feature from later, I don't understand how you didn't get something more like this:
=# create extension foo; ERROR: syntax error at or near "extension" LINE 1: create extension foo; ^ > So I am wondering: > how does one figure out which postgres 9.0 features in particular does > pgpointcloud depend on?
You could try feeding the extension's SQL file directly to psql (in a scratch database so you can clean up easily). If, as is considered good practice, it starts with something like this:
-- complain if script is sourced in psql, rather than via CREATE EXTENSION \echo Use "CREATE EXTENSION cube" to load this file. \quit
then you'll need to delete that; but the rest of it should be regular SQL, and you can see what's failing.