Re: post installation addition of uuid extension

On 08/05/2011 05:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Sargent <rsargent(at)xmission(dot)com> writes:
>> I've inherited some version 9.0 databases which make use of the uuid
>> data type but which do not have the uuid-generate-vx() functions.
>> These installations are running on openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) and were
>> installed (probably) from yast. I've loaded the requisite share-libs
>> (also via yast) (/usr/lib64/libossp-uuid.so.16 which does have an entry
>> point for uuid-export).
>> I have the source for 9.0.3 with the contrib/ossp-uuid package. But the
>> sql therein is of course uuid-ossp.sql.in and needs, I believe, to have
>> "'MODULE_PATHNAME'" resolved before it's useful.
>> Can anyone point me to the next step?
>> As a side note, pg_config was not installed and I don't see it as an
>> option in yast pointed at
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:database:postgresql/openSUSE_11.3
> Considering that there are libossp-uuid RPMs in that repo, I'd bet good
> money that the postgresql-contrib RPM contains contrib/uuid-ossp. Just
> download that instead of building your own.
>
> I'd imagine that pg_config is in the -devel RPM, FWIW.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Thanks very much Tom.

I really must stop using a distro I'm not fond of...

Cheers