Re: Building and installing pg_proctab

From: Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>
To: "alexander al (leiden)" <alexander(at)scred(dot)nl>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Building and installing pg_proctab
Date: 2026-01-20 10:28:12
Message-ID: b952c2b1-8f91-468b-8105-b0c18774e2e2@ewie.name
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On 2026-01-20 11:01 +0100, alexander al (leiden) wrote:
> picture:
> i've got ubuntu 24.04 with postgresql 18 on it. Now I want to install
> pg_proctab on it for monitoring reasons.
>
> i downloaded it from
>
> https://gitlab.com/pg_proctab/pg_proctab/
>
> and i tried to make it.
>
> the docs says
>
> make
> make install
> etc.
>
> but when i do make in the root of pg_proctab i get the error
>
> "Makefile:29: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target '/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop."

Judging by the Makefile logic, I think you need to set USE_PGXS=1.
Without that, the Makefile expects the code to be under Postgres'
contrib tree.

--
Erik Wienhold

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