postgres/contrib
Tom Lane 44fbe20d62 Restructure indexscan API (index_beginscan, index_getnext) per
yesterday's proposal to pghackers.  Also remove unnecessary parameters
to heap_beginscan, heap_rescan.  I modified pg_proc.h to reflect the
new numbers of parameters for the AM interface routines, but did not
force an initdb because nothing actually looks at those fields.
2002-05-20 23:51:44 +00:00
..
array Change made to elog: 2002-03-06 06:10:59 +00:00
btree_gist Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to create 2002-04-17 20:57:57 +00:00
chkpass Fix warning 2001-12-19 18:49:24 +00:00
cube Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to create 2002-04-17 20:57:57 +00:00
dbase The result of getopt() should be compared to -1, not EOF, per 2002-01-10 01:11:45 +00:00
dblink Restructure indexscan API (index_beginscan, index_getnext) per 2002-05-20 23:51:44 +00:00
dbsize Restructure indexscan API (index_beginscan, index_getnext) per 2002-05-20 23:51:44 +00:00
earthdistance To fix the perpetually broken makefiles in the contrib tree, I have 2001-09-06 10:49:30 +00:00
findoidjoins Implement types regprocedure, regoper, regoperator, regclass, regtype 2002-04-25 02:56:56 +00:00
fulltextindex New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed, 2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch Make sure that all <ctype.h> routines are called with unsigned char 2001-12-30 23:09:42 +00:00
intagg Change made to elog: 2002-03-06 06:10:59 +00:00
intarray Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to create 2002-04-17 20:57:57 +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 New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed, 2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
lo Fix a lo_manage()'s bug. 2001-12-07 04:18:31 +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 Restructure indexscan API (index_beginscan, index_getnext) per 2002-05-20 23:51:44 +00:00
mysql Update to my2pg 1.24. 2002-04-24 01:42:29 +00:00
noupdate Change made to elog: 2002-03-06 06:10:59 +00:00
oid2name Currently, contrib/oid2name doesn't bother to free() the memory that it 2002-03-05 05:54:07 +00:00
oracle Remove the last traces of datatypes datetime and timespan. 2002-05-03 04:11:08 +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 Update pg_upgrade for 7.3. 2002-04-09 18:07:24 +00:00
pgbench Update docs about new -N option 2002-05-20 05:07:28 +00:00
pgcrypto Change made to elog: 2002-03-06 06:10:59 +00:00
pgstattuple Restructure indexscan API (index_beginscan, index_getnext) per 2002-05-20 23:51:44 +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 Back out this for Peter: 2002-03-11 04:39:14 +00:00
rtree_gist Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to create 2002-04-17 20:57:57 +00:00
seg Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to create 2002-04-17 20:57:57 +00:00
spi Remove the last traces of datatypes datetime and timespan. 2002-05-03 04:11:08 +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 Remove the last traces of datatypes datetime and timespan. 2002-05-03 04:11:08 +00:00
tools Another round of those unportable config/build changes :-/ 2000-07-09 13:14:19 +00:00
tsearch Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to create 2002-04-17 20:57:57 +00:00
userlock pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regression 2001-10-25 05:50:21 +00:00
vacuumlo I've improved the contributed vacuumlo command, now it behaves like all other 2002-04-24 02:45:51 +00:00
xml Change made to elog: 2002-03-06 06:10:59 +00:00
Makefile I've written on like that a while ago: 2002-02-22 23:05:35 +00:00
README Add integer aggregator to /contrib. 2002-02-25 03:45:27 +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 porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of
the main source tree.  This 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>

dbsize -
	Reports database and table disk space
	by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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>

intagg -
	Integer aggregator
	by  mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>


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>