Harpreet Dhaliwal wrote:
Is it true that postgres doesn't have a notion of Stored
Procedures and functions is what it has instead?
RDBMS like Sql Server supports both stored procedures and functions.
So I was wondering what is the difference between a Stored
Procedure and a function.
I
Is there a way to change mons in interval::text to the full word months
without resorting to replace(aninterval::text,'mon','Month')? If it
can handle locales as well that would be good (but I could live without
it).
klint.
+---+-+
: Klint
I've been testing one of our apps on PostgreSQL for the last few months
and I'm about ready to put it on the production server, but I need
advice on where to locate the tablespace. I've been so concerned
getting the app working, I haven't even considered this yet.
I'm using a RPM install of
Il giorno 02/giu/07, alle ore 00:53, Jim Nasby ha scritto:
Dropping -hackers; that list is for development of the database
engine itself.
ok, sorry
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John Gardner wrote:
I've been testing one of our apps on PostgreSQL for the last few months
and I'm about ready to put it on the production server, but I need
advice on where to locate the tablespace. I've been so concerned
getting the app working, I haven't even considered this yet.
I'm using
hi guys,
i am newbie in postgresql. I need some help; i am trying to write like
this:
select * from TABLE where IN ('value1','valeue2',)
but is it possible to give values from file.
select * from TABLE where IN file
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Erol KAHRAMAN
System Network Administrator
Hi Robert,
Il giorno 01/giu/07, alle ore 04:08, Robert Treat ha scritto:
[...]
We I set these up for our clients, I typically seperate the
partition creation
piece from the data insertion piece. (Mostly as partition creation,
especially with rules, is a table locking event, which is better
Erol KAHRAMAN wrote:
hi guys,
i am newbie in postgresql. I need some help; i am trying to write like
this:
select * from TABLE where IN ('value1','valeue2',)
You'll need to provide a column-name:
... WHERE mycolumn IN (...)
but is it possible to give values from file.
select * from
On mán, 2007-06-04 at 12:12 +0300, Erol KAHRAMAN wrote:
hi guys,
i am newbie in postgresql. I need some help; i am trying to write
like this:
select * from TABLE where IN ('value1','valeue2',)
... WHERE what IN (...) ?
but is it possible to give values from file.
select * from
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:51:37PM +1000, Klint Gore wrote:
Is there a way to change mons in interval::text to the full word months
without resorting to replace(aninterval::text,'mon','Month')? If it
can handle locales as well that would be good (but I could live without
it).
Have you
At 01:42 AM 6/1/2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Vincenzo Romano escribió:
Hi all.
I'd like to know whether there is any real world evaluation (aka test) on
performances of the NUMERIC data type when compared to FLOAT8 and FLOAT4.
The documentation simply says that the former
is much slower than
I've been testing one of our apps on PostgreSQL for the last few
months
and I'm about ready to put it on the production server, but I need
advice on where to locate the tablespace. I've been so concerned
getting the app working, I haven't even considered this yet.
I'm using a RPM install
2007-06-01 23:00:00.001 CEST:% LOG: GIN incomplete splits=8
Just to be sure: patch fixes *creating* of WAL log, not replaying. So, primary
db should be patched too.
During weekend I found possible deadlock in locking protocol in GIN between
concurrent UPDATE and VACUUM queries with the
It is. But why do you care? You either have the correctness that
NUMERIC gives, or you don't.
I suspect it's still useful to know what order of magnitude slower it
is. After all if it is 1000x slower (not saying it is), some people may
decide it's not worth it or roll their own.
Any
1. After a certain point, consecutive GIN index splits cause a problem.
The new RHS block numbers are consecutive from 111780+
That's newly created page. Splitted page might have any number
2. The incomplete splits stay around indefinitely after creation and we
aren't trying to remove the
Hmmm ...
It sounds quite strange to me that numeric is faster than bigint.
Even if bigint didn't get hw support in the CPU it should have been
faster that numeric as it should be mapped in 2 32-bits integers.
Numeric algorithms should be linear (according to the number of digits) in
complexity
Tom Lane wrote:
Right. Multiple seqscans that are anywhere near reading the same block
of a table will tend to self-synchronize. There is a patch under
consideration for 8.3 that helps this along by making seqscans run
circularly --- that is, not always from block 0 to block N, but from
Greg Smith wrote:
The way you're grabbing
files directly from the xlog directory only works because your commit
workload is so trivial that you can get away with it, and because you
haven't then tried to apply future archive logs.
Well, it's only because I don't need future logs, just like I
Hello,
(sorry for my poor english)
It's my first post here, and my doubt is very simple (I guess). I have a
function to populate a table, into WHILE I have the follow piece of code:
--Jump Weekend
IF (SELECT TO_CHAR(CAST(PRODUCTION_DATE as date),'Day')) = 'Saturday' THEN
This is a 32 bit CPU by the way.
Consider this :
- There are 100K rows
- The CPU executes about 3 billion instructions per second if everything
is optimum
- SELECT sum(n) FROM test, takes, say 60 ms
This gives about 1800 CPU ops per row.
A Float addition
Alexander Staubo schrieb:
On 6/1/07, Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These are all different solutions to different problems, so it's not
surprising that they look different. This was the reason I asked,
What is the problem you are trying to solve?
You mean aside from the obvious
Islam Hegazy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I do the same but I use the ddd debugger
1) Load the shared library from the SQL
2) Open the .c file of my function
3) Place the break points
4) Execute the sql statement 'Select * from Myfn(...);'
The result is displayed and the debugger doesn't stop
What OS are you running ?
Linux(32 or 64 Bit)? Ext 3 Filesystem ? Wich Kernel Version ?
Bug in Ext 3/Linux Kernel/Hardware(Raid Controller ?) ?
Does the error only happens under heavy load ?
regards,
-Franz
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im
Ooops. Patch doesn't apply cleanly. New version.
Attached patch fixes that deadlock bug too. And, previous version of my
patch has a mistake which is observable on CREATE INDEX .. USING GIN query.
--
Teodor Sigaev E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm getting more confused.
If the algorithm used to do the sum is a drop in the sea,
then the resources needed to pass a pointer on the stack are
a molecule in the drop! :-)
Nonetheless I think that your directions are right:
doing actual queries instead of inspecting the algorithms themselves
Hello,
you forgot on sunday. Your solution can work, but isn't too efective
you can do:
production_date := production_date +
CASE extract(dow from production_date)
WHEN 0 THEN 1 -- sunday
WHEN 6 THEN 2 -- saturday
ELSE 0 END;
there isn't slower string comparation and it's one sql
On 6/4/07, Tino Wildenhain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you have a look at BizgresMPP?
Especially for your shared-nothing approach it seems to be a better
solution then just replicating everything.
I had completely forgotten about that one. Bizgres.org seems down at
the moment, but looking at
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:49:03AM +0100, John Gardner wrote:
/var/lib/pgsql/data/. Shall I just create a directory under here and
point the tablespace to there? Any advice would be appreciated.
One of the points of ts is to balance io over different controllers/disks.
Someone should
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:27:14PM -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote:
imp=# select age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database where datname = 'imp';
age
1571381411
(1 row)
Time to start VACUUM FULL ANALYZE over the weekend.
I guess this comes too late, but you don't need VACUUM
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:25:30PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
What do you think ? may be a bug in the windows server installation I
have
(this machines have not been updated for some times, perhaps I should try
to do
that and see if the problem is still there. In the long run,
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:35:49PM -0400, Lew wrote:
How much data do you put in the DB? Oracle has a free version, but it has
size limits.
AFAIK, Oracle's free version doesn't include RAC, which is what would
be needed to satisfy the request anyway.
A
--
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:37:42AM +0200, PFC wrote:
NULL usually means unknown or not applicable
Aaaargh! No, it doesn't. It means NULL. Nothing else.
If it meant unknown or not applicable or anything else, then
SELECT * FROM nulltbl a, othernulltbl b
WHERE
If there is any database driver (which was bild with the
old postgresql sources/libs), (re)build this driver with
the new postgresql sources/libs.
Greetings,
-Franz
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Paolo Bizzarri
Gesendet:
Madison Kelly wrote:
Hi all,
After realizing that 'clustering' in the PgSQL docs means multiple
DBs behind one server, and NOT multple machines, I am back at square
one, feeling somewhat the fool. :P
Can anyone point me to docs/websites that discuss options on
replicating in (as close
On 6/3/07, PFC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, it is awful ;^) However the existing system is equally awful
because there is no way to enter NULL!
Consider this form :
First name :Edgar
Middle name : J.
Last name : Hoover
Now, if someone has no middle name, like John Smith,
At 12:37 AM +0200 6/4/07, PFC wrote:
Yeah, it is awful ;^) However the existing system is equally awful
because there is no way to enter NULL!
Consider this form :
First name :Edgar
Middle name : J.
Last name : Hoover
Now, if someone has no middle name, like John Smith, should we
Well,
that pretty much sums it up. pg_cancel_backend() is not working. The
query is still there. The box is across the city and the admin is not
in, is there a way to remote restart the server from within PG?
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:27:14PM -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote:
imp=# select age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database where datname = 'imp';
age
1571381411
(1 row)
Time to start VACUUM FULL ANALYZE over the weekend.
I guess this comes too late,
Vincenzo Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It sounds quite strange to me that numeric is faster than bigint.
This test is 100% faulty, because it fails to consider the fact that the
accumulator used by sum() isn't necessarily the same type as the input
data. In fact we sum ints in a bigint and
Chander Ganesan wrote:
Madison Kelly wrote:
Hi all,
After realizing that 'clustering' in the PgSQL docs means multiple
DBs behind one server, and NOT multple machines, I am back at square
one, feeling somewhat the fool. :P
Can anyone point me to docs/websites that discuss options on
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:37:42AM +0200, PFC wrote:
NULL usually means unknown or not applicable
Aaaargh! No, it doesn't. It means NULL. Nothing else.
If it meant unknown or not applicable or anything else, then
SELECT * FROM nulltbl a, othernulltbl b
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ian Harding wrote:
The hazard with doing stuff like that is some joker could name their
kid Billy NMN Simpson. Or this
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp
That settles it; I'm getting custom plates with NULL on them just to see
if it makes it impossible for me to
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:34:13AM -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote:
What do you mean by this? I wanted to do both a VACUUM ANALYZE and a
VACUUM FULL, so ran VACUUM FULL ANALYZE. Is there something odd about
VACUUM FULL, other than locking the table it's working on?
It tends to bloat indexes.
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:21:32PM +0200, Chander Ganesan wrote:
I think you'll typically find that you can get one or the other -
synchronous replication, or load balancing...but not both. On the other
Hi,
I am in very similar position, but I am more failover oriented. I am
considering
On 6/4/07, Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:37:42AM +0200, PFC wrote:
NULL usually means unknown or not applicable
Aaaargh! No, it doesn't. It means NULL. Nothing else.
If it meant unknown or not applicable or anything else, then
SELECT * FROM
Hello,
I was hoping someone here may be able to help me out with this one:
Is there anything similiar to: SELECT current_date;
that will return the date of the first Monday of the month?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Joshua
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Hi,
I'm trying to reach my postgres database via a remote connection. Yet
my connection is refused when I try to do that.
I'm using Ubuntu Feisty
Following lines are now in my pg_hba.conf-file:
# TYPE DATABASEUSERCIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
# local is for Unix domain socket
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:38:01PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
Well, a strict unknown is fine - so long as it means just that.
How tall is Andrew? Unknown
How tall is Richard? Unknown
Are Andrew and Richard the same height? Unknown
The problem is the slippery-slope from unknown to
Rhys Stewart escribió:
Well,
that pretty much sums it up. pg_cancel_backend() is not working. The
query is still there. The box is across the city and the admin is not
in, is there a way to remote restart the server from within PG?
It is probably a bug and if you gives us some information we
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:34:13AM -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote:
VACUUM FULL _does not_ mean vacuum everything!
What do you mean by this?
Sorry, I was trying to prevent you doing a VACUUM FULL you didn't
want (but another message said you actually intended a vacuum full).
Several people have
well there is the info below:
GISDEV=# select version();
version
--
PostgreSQL 8.1.5 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC)
3.4.2 (mingw-special)
(1 row)
a more readable version
GISDEV=# select version();
version
--
PostgreSQL 8.1.5 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe
After some observation of massive reindexing of some hundred thousand
data sets it seems to me that the slave doesn't skip checkpoints
anymore. (Apart from those skipped because of the CheckpointTimeout thing)
I'll keep an eye on it and report back any news on the issue.
Thank you for the good
Steven De Vriendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to reach my postgres database via a remote connection. Yet
my connection is refused when I try to do that.
I think you need to fix listen_addresses, not pg_hba.conf.
regards, tom lane
Rhys Stewart escribió:
a more readable version
What is this buffer() function?
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PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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After some observation of massive reindexing of some hundred thousand
data sets it seems to me that the slave doesn't skip checkpoints
anymore. (Apart from those skipped because of the CheckpointTimeout thing)
I'll keep an eye on it and report back any news on the issue.
Nice, committed. Thank
Aaaargh! No, it doesn't. It means NULL. Nothing else.
Well, x = UNKNOWN doesn't make any sense... the answer is UNKNOWN.
x IS UNKNOWN does make sense, the answer is true or false. Replace
UNKNOWN with NULL...
Actually it means what the DBA wants it to mean (which opens the
If you try it with max() you'd likely get less-surprising answers.
So it was in fact the type conversions that got timed.
Damn. I got outsmarted XDD
Rewind :
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE test AS SELECT a::FLOAT AS f,
(a::NUMERIC)*100 AS n, a::INTEGER AS i,
During a routine backup procedure (that does not run nightly) for an
8.2.3 postgres cluster, pg_dump failed:
pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not open relation
with OID ...
In doing some log forensics, I discovered that this error has been
showing up in the logs
Alexander Staubo írta:
On 6/4/07, Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:37:42AM +0200, PFC wrote:
NULL usually means unknown or not applicable
Aaaargh! No, it doesn't. It means NULL. Nothing else.
If it meant unknown or not applicable or anything else, then
I'm trying to move my WAL to another drive, but am having difficulties
with this seemingly simple process. Every time I start up with pg_xlog
symlinked to my other drive, I get this:
FATAL: could not open file pg_xlog/0001.history: Permission denied
If I move pg_xlog back into its normal
Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
During a routine backup procedure (that does not run nightly) for an
8.2.3 postgres cluster, pg_dump failed:
pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not open relation
with OID ...
In doing some log forensics, I discovered that this error has been
Ben wrote:
I'm trying to move my WAL to another drive, but am having difficulties
with this seemingly simple process. Every time I start up with pg_xlog
symlinked to my other drive, I get this:
FATAL: could not open file pg_xlog/0001.history: Permission denied
If I move pg_xlog back
Ben wrote:
I'm trying to move my WAL to another drive, but am having difficulties
with this seemingly simple process. Every time I start up with pg_xlog
symlinked to my other drive, I get this:
FATAL: could not open file pg_xlog/0001.history: Permission denied
If I move pg_xlog
Hi,
Im trying to load data from a file using copy command. At the end of
the data, I have appended copy statement as
copy tablename(col1, col2) from stdin with delimiter as '\t';
.\
But I get following error.
ERROR: syntax error at or near 2713
LINE 1: 2713
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Ben wrote:
I'm trying to move my WAL to another drive, but am having difficulties with
this seemingly simple process. Every time I start up with pg_xlog symlinked
to my other drive, I get this:
FATAL: could not open file pg_xlog/0001.history:
On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Ben wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Ben wrote:
I'm trying to move my WAL to another drive, but am having
difficulties with this seemingly simple process. Every time I
start up with pg_xlog symlinked to my other drive, I get this:
FATAL:
Hello,
I need to store users and passwords on a table and I want to store it
encrypted, but I don't found documentation about it, how can I create a
table with columns user and password with column password
encrypted and how can I check if user and password are correct using
a sql query ?
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Steve Atkins wrote:
Are you running SELinux? It's main goal in life is to break disk access by
denying permission to files anywhere other than where it thinks an
application should be allowed to access.
Bleh. I am, but I *thought* it was not enforcing. Seems I was wrong.
I need to store users and passwords on a table and I want to store it
encrypted, but I don't found documentation about it, how can I create a
Take a look at the pgcrypto user-contributed module.
-- Gary Chambers
// Nothing fancy and nothing Microsoft!
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Yes, I am sure. If I placed a breakpoint in any file, e.g. execMain.c, the
debugger would enter this file.
Islam Hegazy
- Original Message -
From: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Islam Hegazy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Hello,
I need to insert a path into a table, but because \ I have a error by
postgres, so how can I insert a path like bellow into a table:
insert into production values ('C:\Program Files\My program');
I appreciate any help
Thanks
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If you are on 8.1 you can use double qoutes ( 'C:\\Program Files\\My
program' ) on in 8.2 you can use the new backslash_quote (string)
setting.
You can find help on backslash_quote (string) at --
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-compatible.html
--
Shoaib Mir
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:10:48PM -0300, Ranieri Mazili wrote:
Hello,
I need to insert a path into a table, but because \ I have a error by
postgres, so how can I insert a path like bellow into a table:
insert into production values ('C:\Program Files\My program');
Use double
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 22:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/01/07 19:29, Jeff Davis wrote:
[snip]
You shouldn't use a volatile function in a check constraint. Use a
trigger instead, but even that is unlikely to work for enforcing
constraints correctly.
In general, for partitioning,
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:55 +0200, Marco Colombo wrote:
Greg Smith wrote:
The way you're grabbing
files directly from the xlog directory only works because your commit
workload is so trivial that you can get away with it, and because you
haven't then tried to apply future archive logs.
Paolo Bizzarri wrote:
On 6/2/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paolo Bizzarri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 6/2/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please provide a reproducible test case ...
as explained above, the problem seems quite random. So I need to
understand what we have to
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 04:51:13PM -0400, Harpreet Dhaliwal wrote:
my bad.. i replied to that in a wrong thread. sorry
That is one of many reasons that smart people don't top post. Had you
decided not to top post, you would have realized instantly that you
were in the wrong thread.
If there is
On Jun 4, 2007, at 15:10 , Ranieri Mazili wrote:
I need to insert a path into a table, but because \ I have a
error by postgres, so how can I insert a path like bellow into a
table:
insert into production values ('C:\Program Files\My program');
In v8.0 and later you can use
It worked today with me and I discovered what is the problem. The problem is
that I have 2 structures that contain pointers. I inistiate variables from
these structures as static. I can't declare the pointers inside the struct
as static. Now the problem is that when the function is called a
On May 30, 7:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PFC) wrote:
Python example :
I found a decent solution for the existing plpgsql function (as
posted). Thanks a lot for the insight into the Python way, though!
Regards
Erwin
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Or even, slightly shorter:
EXECUTE
'SELECT '
|| array_to_string(ARRAY(
SELECT a.attname
FROM pg_class c, pg_namespace n, pg_attribute a
WHERE n.oid = c.relnamespace
AND a.attrelid = c.oid
AND a.attnum = 1
AND n.nspname = 'myschema'
AND c.relname = 'mytbl'
Ranieri Mazili wrote:
Hello,
I need to store users and passwords on a table and I want to store it
encrypted, but I don't found documentation about it, how can I create a
table with columns user and password with column password
encrypted and how can I check if user and password are correct
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:00:10PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Rhys Stewart escribió:
a more readable version
What is this buffer() function?
Looks like the PostGIS buffer() function, which calls GEOSBuffer()
in the GEOS library, which is where the code might be stuck.
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:43:08 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:51:37PM +1000, Klint Gore wrote:
Is there a way to change mons in interval::text to the full word months
without resorting to replace(aninterval::text,'mon','Month')? If it
can
Hi,
I´ve a PostgreSQL 8.0.13 running in a Windows XP Pro 2002 SP2 box that is
terminating abnormally with signal code 5 every time I make a simple select
in one of our tables.
2007-06-04 21:24:12 LOG: database system was shut down at 2007-06-04
21:23:42 E. South America Standard Time
2007-06-04
Hi Lew!
Thank you for your comments. I have elaborated on them.
On Jun 3, 7:22 pm, Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(...)
The trouble with this is that it models kingship as an attribute of every
man. (What, no female rulers allowed?)
Yeah, saddening, isn't it? Actually, for simplicity's sake I
Michael Fuhr escribió:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:00:10PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Rhys Stewart escribió:
a more readable version
What is this buffer() function?
Looks like the PostGIS buffer() function, which calls GEOSBuffer()
in the GEOS library, which is where the code might
I know this is a question that gets asked a zillion times and is
almost always pilot error.
I installed PostgreSQL 8.2.x and the Tsearch2 package on NetBSD which
went fine, but I can't get the tsearch2.sql file to run.
The usual error about file does not exist relative to
$libdir/tsearch2 gets
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