Re: BUG #4914: uuid_generate_v4 not present in eithersource or yum/rpm

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:31:05PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
- Dan Boeriu wrote:
- > Could you please tell me how you installed it? What exact version did you download? Was it source or yum/rpm?
- > I tried both with source compiling with the flags for oops-uuid and still didn't get the function uuid_generate_v4.
- >
- > If you installed from source please send me the configure flags you used.
- > If you installed from yum/rpm please tell me what version/platform.
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- I compiled from source. Did you enter the contrib/uuid-ossp directory
- and ran make install in there?
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- $ pg_config --configure
- '--enable-debug' '--enable-depend' '--enable-cassert' '--enable-nls' '--cache-file=/home/alvherre/tmp/pgconfig.84_rel.cache' '--enable-thread-safety' '--with-python' '--with-perl' '--with-tcl' '--with-openssl' '--with-libxml' '--with-ossp-uuid' '--prefix=/pgsql/install/84_rel' '--with-pgport=55516'
-

Just an addition to this topic.

We're using SLES 11, and uuid-ossp isn't delivered in the postgresql-contrib package, we opened
a case with Novell and this was their reply:

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With regards to Service Request # 10497898141:

Thank you for the response. Since the PostgreSQL project determined uuid off by default, the SLES RPMs have been left at the default. Recompiling
with the settings to turn on uuid is how to enable uuid, but recompiling in no something supported.

I will close this Service Request, since enabling uuid and recompiling are not supported.
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Dave