postgres/contrib
Tom Lane 4fec55af6c Fix several problems with simple_prompt() --- the nastiest being that
the entered password would get echoed on some platforms, eg HPUX.
We have enough copies of this code that I'm thinking it ought to be
moved into libpq, but that's a task for another day.
2001-10-18 21:57:11 +00:00
..
array To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
btree_gist Update incorrect expected file. Use 'timestamp without time zone' 2001-10-03 18:39:12 +00:00
chkpass To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
cube To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
dbase Fix several problems with simple_prompt() --- the nastiest being that 2001-10-18 21:57:11 +00:00
dblink Fix some portability problems (get it to compile, at least, on HP's cc) 2001-10-15 18:49:40 +00:00
earthdistance To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
findoidjoins To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
fulltextindex Fix some portability problems (get it to compile, at least, on HP's cc) 2001-10-15 18:56:30 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
intarray 1. Implemented binary search in array 2001-10-04 15:41:14 +00:00
ipc_check
isbn_issn To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
lo To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
mSQL-interface
mac
miscutil To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
mysql
noupdate To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
oid2name Tweak to test HAVE_GETOPT_H before including <getopt.h>, so as to 2001-10-02 22:38:43 +00:00
oracle
pg_controldata To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
pg_dumplo To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
pg_logger To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
pg_resetxlog To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
pgbench Add -U, -P, -C options. See README.pgbench for more details. 2001-09-09 03:15:56 +00:00
pgcrypto Fix some portability problems (get it to compile, at least, on HP's cc) 2001-10-15 19:15:18 +00:00
pgstattuple Add pgstattuple 2001-10-01 01:52:38 +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 Fix some portability problems (get it to compile, at least, on HP's cc) 2001-10-15 19:15:18 +00:00
rtree_gist Fix a couple of stray // comments. 2001-10-01 17:53:12 +00:00
seg To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
spi To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
start-scripts Patch to add comments to Linux startup script. 2001-07-30 14:52:42 +00:00
string To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
tips To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
tools
tsearch Updated regression test for tsearch, from Teodor Sigaev. 2001-10-15 17:41:33 +00:00
userlock Get rid of PID entries in shmem hash table; there is no longer any need 2001-09-07 00:27:30 +00:00
vacuumlo Change vacuumlo to take 'lo' type into account. 2001-09-17 02:30:54 +00:00
xml Remove mistakenly-included file, per request from John Gray. 2001-09-29 05:42:24 +00:00
Makefile txtidx datatype for full text indexing with GiST. 2001-10-12 23:19:09 +00:00
README txtidx datatype for full text indexing with GiST. 2001-10-12 23:19:09 +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 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>

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>