postgres/contrib
Tom Lane 84e5ce7eb9 Back-patch into 7.2 branch the 7.3 changes that made contrib/seg
error messages reasonably independent of the bison version used to
build segparse.c.   Needed to get this branch passing on buildfarm.
2005-07-16 19:48:16 +00:00
..
array pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regression 2001-10-25 05:50:21 +00:00
btree_gist BACKPATCH: 2002-02-22 06:08:48 +00:00
chkpass Make sure contrib C functions are marked strict where needed. 2005-01-29 22:36:03 +00:00
cube Back-patch into 7.2 branch the 7.3 changes that made contrib/cube 2005-07-16 19:27:20 +00:00
dbase The result of getopt() should be compared to -1, not EOF, per 2002-01-10 01:11:45 +00:00
dblink >>I confirmed the UNION hack is no longer required. Thanks! Is it too late 2001-12-13 10:48:39 +00:00
earthdistance To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
findoidjoins Back-patch make_oidjoins_check security improvement. 2004-10-21 17:12:35 +00:00
fulltextindex New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed, 2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch Mark the text_soundex() function as "strict", to avoid crashing on NULL 2005-01-26 08:25:46 +00:00
intarray Please apply attached patch to contrib/intarray (7.2, 7.3). 2002-06-07 21:53:09 +00:00
ipc_check start of an admin tool for FreeBSD to help configure shared memory for 2001-02-27 15:37:39 +00:00
isbn_issn Make sure contrib C functions are marked strict where needed. 2005-01-29 22:36:03 +00:00
lo Make sure contrib C functions are marked strict where needed. 2005-01-29 22:36:03 +00:00
mSQL-interface pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regression 2001-10-25 05:50:21 +00:00
mac Move contrib/odbc/odbc.sql together with odbc driver, remove old files; 2000-09-18 20:11:37 +00:00
miscutil Another pgindent run. Fixes enum indenting, and improves #endif 2001-10-28 06:26:15 +00:00
mysql Upgrade my2pg version 1.23. 2002-02-08 14:47:56 +00:00
noupdate To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
oid2name Fix typo in usage message, per Oleg. 2002-01-25 15:40:13 +00:00
oracle Here the latest version and first working release of Ora2Pg a tool to export 2001-06-23 02:56:23 +00:00
pg_controldata pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regression 2001-10-25 05:50:21 +00:00
pg_dumplo Add port number to pg_dumplo. 2001-11-12 17:44:14 +00:00
pg_logger New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed, 2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
pg_resetxlog Code review for latest changes. 2002-01-11 21:27:13 +00:00
pg_upgrade Fix flag handling of pg_upgrade. 2002-02-11 15:19:33 +00:00
pgbench The result of getopt() should be compared to -1, not EOF, per 2002-01-10 01:11:45 +00:00
pgcrypto Some builds (depends on crypto engine support?) of OpenSSL 2005-03-13 23:46:27 +00:00
pgstattuple Repair possible failure to update hint bits back to disk, per 2004-10-13 22:22:41 +00:00
retep Resolve a number of oddities in the Java build. First, remove the weird 2001-07-06 23:07:20 +00:00
rserv Another pgindent run. Fixes enum indenting, and improves #endif 2001-10-28 06:26:15 +00:00
rtree_gist Fix a bug with building rtree_gist indexes. 2002-05-28 15:25:03 +00:00
seg Back-patch into 7.2 branch the 7.3 changes that made contrib/seg 2005-07-16 19:48:16 +00:00
spi New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed, 2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
start-scripts Patch to add comments to Linux startup script. 2001-07-30 14:52:42 +00:00
string pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regression 2001-10-25 05:50:21 +00:00
tips To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
tools Another round of those unportable config/build changes :-/ 2000-07-09 13:14:19 +00:00
tsearch > > Users of contrib/tsearch needs after upgrading of module (compiling, installing) 2002-03-19 14:16:32 +00:00
userlock pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regression 2001-10-25 05:50:21 +00:00
vacuumlo Change vacuumlo to take 'lo' type into account. 2001-09-17 02:30:54 +00:00
xml New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed, 2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
Makefile txtidx datatype for full text indexing with GiST. 2001-10-12 23:19:09 +00:00
README Move pg_upgrade to /contrib. Still need to make Peter's portability 2002-01-14 17:32:07 +00:00
contrib-global.mk Install dynamically loadable modules into a private subdirectory 2001-09-16 16:11:11 +00:00

README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains tools, modules, and examples that are not
maintained as part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they only address a limited audience or are too inelegant to be
sold as an official feature.  That, however, does not preclude
their usefulness.

Each subdirectory contains a README file with information about the
module.  Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed
with `gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the
`configure' script in the top-level directory.  Some directories
supply new user-defined functions, operators, or types.  After you
have installed the files you need to register the new entities in
the database system by running the commands in the supplied .sql
file.  For example,

	$ psql -d dbname -f module.sql

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.


Index:
------

array -
	Array iterator functions
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

btree_gist -
	Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>

chkpass -
	An auto-encrypted password datatype
	by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>

cube -
	Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

dbase -
	Converts from dbase/xbase to PostgreSQL
	by Maarten.Boekhold <Maarten.Boekhold@reuters.com>,
	   Frank Koormann <fkoorman@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de>,
	   Ivan Baldo <lubaldo@adinet.com.uy>

dblink -
	Allows remote query execution
	by  Joe Conway, joe.conway@mail.com

earthdistance -
	Operator for computing earth distance for two points
	by Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>

findoidjoins -
	Finds the joins used by oid columns by examining the actual
	values in the oid columns and row oids.
	by Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

fulltextindex -
	Full text indexing using triggers
	by Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>

fuzzystrmatch -
	Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
	by Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com>, Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

intarray -
	Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net> and Oleg Bartunov
	<oleg@sai.msu.su>.

ipc_check -
	Simple test script to help in configuring IPC.
	FreeBSD only, for now.

isbn_issn -
	PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN (books) and ISSN (serials)
	by Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

lo -
	Large Object maintenance
	by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> 

mSQL-interface -
	mSQL API translation library
	by Aldrin Leal <aldrin@americasnet.com>

mac -
	Support functions for MAC address types
	by Lawrence E. Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>

miscutil -
	PostgreSQL assert checking and various utility functions
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

mysql -
	utility to convert MySQL schema dumps to SQL92 and PostgreSQL
	by Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
	   Max Rudensky <fonin@ziet.zhitomir.ua>
	   Valentine Danilchuk <valdan@ziet.zhitomir.ua>

noupdate -
	trigger to prevent updates on single columns

oid2name - 
	maps numeric files to table names
	by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>

oracle -
	converts Oracle database schema to PostgreSQL
	by Gilles Darold <gilles@darold.net>

pg_controldata -
	Dump contents of pg_control (database master file)
	by Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>

pg_dumplo -
	Dump large objects
	by Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>

pg_logger -
	Stdin-to-syslog gateway for PostgreSQL
	by Nathan Myers <ncm@nospam.cantrip.org>

pg_resetxlog -
	Reset the WAL log (pg_xlog) to recover from crash or format change
	by Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

pg_upgrade -
	Upgrade from previous PostgreSQL version without pg_dump/reload
	by Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

pgbench -
	TPC-B like benchmarking tool
	by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

pgcrypto -
	Cryptographic functions
	by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

pgstattuple -
	A function returns the percentage of "dead" tuples in a table
	by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

retep -
	tools to build retep tools packages
	by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

rserv -
	replication server
	by Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim4o@email.com>

rtree_gist -
	Support for emulating RTREE indexing in GiST
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>

seg -
	Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

spi -
	Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.

start-scripts - 
	Scripts for starting the server at boot time.
	
string -
	C-like input/output conversion routines for strings
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

tips/apache_logging -
	Getting Apache to log to PostgreSQL
	by Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>

tools -
	Assorted developer tools
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

tsearch -
	Full-text-index support using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net> and Oleg Bartunov
	<oleg@sai.msu.su>.

userlock -
	User locks
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

vacuumlo -
	Remove orphaned large objects
	by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

xml -
	Storing XML in PostgreSQL
	by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>