Re: Contrib source

On Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:48:57 am gnuoytr(at)rcn(dot)com wrote:
> I just got wholly confused. Synaptic makes it appear that *contrib is a
> separate entity. And the source isn't in a src subdirectory, but in the
> contrib directory directly. If I built PG on a regular basis, I might
> remember all this.

Well contrib is just that, code that is not part of the core Postgres code, but
is contributed to the project. This is why it has its own directory. The src
directory is for the core Postgres code. Ubuntu packages the contrib code
separately for the same reason. The reason it installed the full Postgres code
is that the contrib modules cannot run without it and Synaptic had no way of
knowing about your existing self built code.

>
> The xTuple folks only support a few PG releases, and with a specific set of
> modules built in. So, off to build it again.
>
> Robert

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