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On 02/04/2012 22:24, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> 
> On Apr 2, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:

>> On 02/04/2012 20:54, Puneet Kishor wrote:
>>> I was hoping to try out the SPI extension with Postgres 9.1, which, per the 
>>> documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/contrib-spi.html 
>>> is supposed to live under <path>/to/contrib. But, in my 
>>> /opt/local/share/postgresql91/contrib I don't have spi. Should I be able to 
>>> get this via macports, or do I just download Pg sourcecode and look within 
>>> that?
>>
>> If it's not available on Mac Ports, you could try PGXN which is
>> postgresql's answer to CPAN.
>>
>> Haven't checked that it's on there but I should think so. If it is, it's
>> simply a case of installing the module when you've pointed it at the
>> right location by all accounts.
>>
> 
> 
> Interesting... didn't even know of PGXN's existence. Sadly, SPI doesn't seem 
> to exist on PGXN. And, it also requires installing PGXN client written in 
> Python, which, hopefully shouldn't be any more difficult that macports, but I 
> know nothing about Python.
> 
> I downloaded the Pg source code, and that does come with the source for a 
> boatload of contribs. But, to compile any of those extensions, I need to "run 
> configure in the top level directory and then run `gmake all`". Well, I don't 
> know the configure options that macports used when it installed Pg, and I 
> don't have gmake.


I compiled my own pgsql on OS X & it built very easily. The gmake I
used, I installed from Mac Ports. But it would definitely wouldn't be
advisable to re-run configure against the postgresql you have installed
in /opt/local as you say.

Cheers,

  Phil...

- -- 
But masters, remember that I am an ass.
Though it be not written down,
yet forget not that I am an ass.

        Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing


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