Thread: Installing Contrib Modules with a Precompiled Binary
I'm using the OS X precompiled binary from EnterpriseDB and want to add the tablefunc contrib module. I haven't been ableto find any documentation about how to do this or even whether modules can be added to this binary version. I suppose that it may be a good idea to export my databases and compile from source anyway. I see that Postgres is runningas a 32-bit application while I have a 64-bit machine and OS (OS X, Snow Leopard.) -Aram
Aram Fingal <fingal@multifactorial.com> writes:
> I'm using the OS X precompiled binary from EnterpriseDB and want to add the tablefunc contrib module. I haven't been
ableto find any documentation about how to do this or even whether modules can be added to this binary version.
Most packagers distribute all the contrib modules as a single lump ---
look around, you'll likely find it available from EDB.
> I suppose that it may be a good idea to export my databases and compile from source anyway. I see that Postgres is
runningas a 32-bit application while I have a 64-bit machine and OS (OS X, Snow Leopard.)
Note that you will need a dump and reload to convert a database from
32-bit to 64-bit. If you don't know that you are running into memory
restrictions, it may not be worth the trouble.
regards, tom lane
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Aram Fingal <fingal@multifactorial.com> wrote: > I'm using the OS X precompiled binary from EnterpriseDB and want to add the tablefunc contrib module. I haven't been ableto find any documentation about how to do this or even whether modules can be added to this binary version. It's the same as the source version except you don't need to build the binary - just run the SQL script from the share/ subdirectory of the installation. > I suppose that it may be a good idea to export my databases and compile from source anyway. I see that Postgres is runningas a 32-bit application while I have a 64-bit machine and OS (OS X, Snow Leopard.) The 9.0 release supports 32 and 64 bit Intel machines. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company
On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Dave Page wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Aram Fingal <fingal@multifactorial.com> wrote:I'm using the OS X precompiled binary from EnterpriseDB and want to add the tablefunc contrib module. I haven't been able to find any documentation about how to do this or even whether modules can be added to this binary version.
It's the same as the source version except you don't need to build the
binary - just run the SQL script from the share/ subdirectory of the
installation.
So that means something like:
psql -d dbname -f /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/share/postgresql/contrib/tablefunc.sql
I suppose that it may be a good idea to export my databases and compile from source anyway. I see that Postgres is running as a 32-bit application while I have a 64-bit machine and OS (OS X, Snow Leopard.)
The 9.0 release supports 32 and 64 bit Intel machines.
I suppose that I will have to export and re-import the databases when I upgrade? That may be worth it but I'll do it later. I do have some some very intensive queries, which take a long time to run, but I gather (from Tom Lane's comment) that switching to 64-bit will only help if the query would benefit from utilizing large amounts of RAM (like more than 2GB?) A single query will still run on a single processor core. I do have 8GB RAM in the machine but my databases are just not that big.
-Aram
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Aram Fingal <fingal@multifactorial.com> wrote: > > So that means something like: > psql -d dbname -f > /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/share/postgresql/contrib/tablefunc.sql Yup. > I suppose that I will have to export and re-import the databases when I > upgrade? Hmm, yes - interesting point. pg_upgrade won't work, because OSX will automatically run the 64bit part of the Universal binaries with 9.0, where the 8.3 or 8.4 versions would have been 32bit. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company