48ea558313
Remove lots of outdated information that is duplicated by the better-maintained SGML documentation. In particular, remove the outdated listing of contrib modules. Update the installation instructions to mention CREATE EXTENSION, but don't go into too much detail.
29 lines
1.1 KiB
Plaintext
29 lines
1.1 KiB
Plaintext
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.
|
|
|
|
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
|
|
documentation.
|
|
|
|
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
|
|
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
|
|
also build and install them all by running "gmake all" and "gmake
|
|
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
|
|
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
|
|
|
|
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
|
|
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
|
|
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
|
|
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
|
|
you can simply do
|
|
|
|
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
|
|
|
|
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
|
|
procedure.
|