Re: Trouble with amcheck

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Douglas Doole <dougdoole(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I just cloned PostgreSQL to a new machine today (Ubuntu 17.04). "make
> install" and "make check-world" run fine but "make installcheck-world" is
> having trouble with amcheck:
>
> In contrib/amcheck/results:
>
> CREATE EXTENSION amcheck;
> ERROR: could not open extension control file
> "/home/doole/pgCommunity/install/share/postgresql/extension/amcheck.control":
> No such file or directory
>
> I expect I'm missing something in the machine set up, but I'm stumped as to
> what.

I think you need to build and install contrib, so that it is available
to the server that you're running an installcheck against. amcheck is
alphabetically first among contrib modules that have tests, IIRC.

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Peter Geoghegan