Re: How to find out extension directory

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 4:12 PM, rakeshkumar464 <rakeshkumar464(at)outlook(dot)com>
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> I am documenting on automating installation of pgaudit extension for
> containers. On my laptop I see that the directory where the files
> pgaudit.control and pgaudit--1.2.sql needs to be present is
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> /usr/share/postgresql/10/extension.
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> How do I know beforehand where the dir path is ?
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> How do I know beforehand where the dir path is ?

That would depend on the O/S, but it is not really necessary to know the
path, as PostgreSQL will know it.
Simply establish a connection to the database you want to create the
extension in and do

*CREATE EXTENSION extention_name;*

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-createextension.html

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