I'm contributing PostgreSQL package for Japanese Linux distribution
which consists of two archives. One is main package and another
contains examples such as in contrib, test and tutorial directories.
When I tried to make under contrib directory, I felt difficulty to work
under each subdirectory. So I made a patch to install *.so objs in
$PGLIB/modules directory. In this time, I found the problem when
regression testing with recompiled refint.so which needs some
compile flag to be vurbos for the test. This time I added Makefile
and README file in contrib directory as the followings.
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This directory contains the contribution functions or tools with
PostgreSQL-6.3.2.
Warning:
Please check the source codes befor you do the following installations
and using them as your own risk.
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Contents:
- contrib -|
|- apache_logging -
| Getting Apache to log to PostgreSQL
| by Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>
|- array -
| Array iterator functions
| by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
|- datetime -
| Date & time functions
| by Sergio Lenzi <lenzi@bsi.com.br>
|- int8 -
| 64-bit integer arithmetic for Postgres
| by Thomas G. Lockhart <Thomas.Lockhart@jpl.nasa.gov>
|- ip_and_mac -
| PostgreSQL type extensions for IP and MAC addresses
| by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
|- linux -
| Start postgres back end system
| by Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
|- miscutil -
| Postgres assert checking and various utility functions
| by Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
|- pginterface -
| A crude C/4GL
| by Bruce Momjian <root@candle.pha.pa.us>
|- sequence -
| Set a new sequence value
| by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
|- soundex -
| Prototype for soundex function
|- spi -
| A general trigger function autoinc() and so on.
|- string -
| New input/output conversion routines for strings
| by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
|- unixdate -
| Conversions from integer to datetime
| by Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
|- userlock -
| User locks
| by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
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How to install:
After patched this directory,
% zcat 6.3.2_contrib_Makefiles.patch.gz | patch -p1
the C function modules will be installed into $(LIBDIR)/modules/ with
the following command execution.
% make clean
% make
% make install
You have to do manualy execute sql commands and make entries of functions
after you installed the modules if you want to use them.
% cd [module source dir.]
% psql -e [database name] < [file name].sql
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Jun Kuwamura
rC Cm Research Center of Computational Mechanics, Inc.
^ E-Mail: juk@rccm.co.jp
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