On Apr 2, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. >
Yes, which is a significant issue with a port manager. If it provides what you want, life is good. If it doesn't, you have to either get it to, or potentially run afoul of it. Hopefully, I will get other suggestions. -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
