Re: RPM package question

From: John Gardner <john(dot)gardner(at)tagish(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RPM package question
Date: 2009-04-04 08:19:41
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Thanks for this Tom.

----- "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> John Gardner <john(dot)gardner(at)tagish(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > We've got an application to install on PostgreSQL 8.2 and the
> > requirements say "Please make sure that PL/pgsql and
> FuzzyStringMatch
> > library is installed."
>
> > Can anyone tell me which RPM packages contain these?
>
> Hmm, I'm pretty sure Devrim's packages split up the same way mine do,
> so the answer should be -server and -contrib respectively. Which
> you've got. You probably just haven't activated them in your current
> database. To install plpgsql you say "CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql".
> To install a contrib module you run its defining SQL script, which if
> memory serves is under /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/ (if not, rpm -ql
> on the -contrib RPM will tell you where they are).
>
> regards, tom lane

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