Re: connectby documentation

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Daniel Caune <daniel(dot)caune(at)ubisoft(dot)com>
Cc: lucius(dot)seneca(at)gmail(dot)com, postgresql sql list <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: connectby documentation
Date: 2006-03-14 00:25:48
Message-ID: 20060314002548.GA90894@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:38:14PM -0500, Daniel Caune wrote:
> I provide hereafter a description about how to install the function
> connectby (I didn't find such documentation and I don't know where to
> write this documentation):

README.tablefunc contains instructions on how to load the module
into a database.

> > apt-get install postgresql-contrib-8.1
> > emacs /usr/share/postgresql/8.1/contrib/tablefunc.sql
>
> Replace "$libdir" by "/usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/lib/tablefunc.so" (I
> suggest to modifying only a copy of this file).

That shouldn't be necessary unless the package installed the shared
objects somewhere other than where the database was expecting.
What's the output of "pg_config --libdir --version"?

> > su postgres
> > psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.1/contrib/tablefunc.sql <database>

Or, omitting the su, psql -U postgres ....

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Michael Fuhr

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