Re: Addons

I can't seem to be able to change/add builtin contrib items using the
installer after it's been installed already. Is there another way to access
those modules and install them manually ?

Thanks

On 2/17/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> David Legault wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can't find a list of addons on the website. I'd like to view the list
> of
> > addons like pgcrypto and download/install some of them into my
> installation
> > so I can use some of the functions.
>
> There is www.pgfoundry.org and there is the built in contrib. The built
> in contrib has the items such as pgcrypto.
>
> >
> > And is there any advanced docs on the PL/PGSQL language like how to
> > manipulate strings (string replace, search, split, etc)
>
> The language doesn't :), PostgreSQL does. Unlike something like Perl (or
> plPerl), something like replace() uses the PostgreSQL function replace()
> not a language function. See here:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions.html
>
> You can call anything in the above link from plpgsql, directly.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > David
> >
>
>
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