Re: Regarding creating pgpointcloud extension.

Thank you Tom. I have already started running queries from the
corresponding extension. Let's see how far I get! :)

Regards,
Nandish

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Nandish Jayaram <njayaram(at)pivotal(dot)io> writes:
> > I have been trying to get pgpointcloud running on greenplum 5.0 database.
> > This might seem like a convoluted topic to discuss on this mailing list,
> but
> > the reason I am asking here is that Greenplum 5 is based on postgres 8.4
> > and pgpointcloud requires at least postgres 9.0 it seems.
>
> [ scratches head... ] The whole concept of extensions came in with PG 9.1.
> So unless Greenplum cherry-picked that feature from later, I don't
> understand how you didn't get something more like this:
>
> =# create extension foo;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "extension"
> LINE 1: create extension foo;
> ^
>
> > So I am wondering:
> > how does one figure out which postgres 9.0 features in particular does
> > pgpointcloud depend on?
>
> You could try feeding the extension's SQL file directly to psql (in a
> scratch database so you can clean up easily). If, as is considered
> good practice, it starts with something like this:
>
> -- complain if script is sourced in psql, rather than via CREATE EXTENSION
> \echo Use "CREATE EXTENSION cube" to load this file. \quit
>
> then you'll need to delete that; but the rest of it should be regular
> SQL, and you can see what's failing.
>
> regards, tom lane
>