postgres/contrib
Joe Conway 056eb1412c When a cursor is opened using dblink_open, only start a transaction
if there isn't one already open. Upon dblink_close, only commit
the open transaction if it was started by dblink_open, and only
then when all cursors opened by dblink_open are closed. The transaction
accounting is done individually for all named connections, plus
the persistent unnamed connection.
2005-10-18 02:55:49 +00:00
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adddepend make sure the $Id tags are converted to $PostgreSQL as well ... 2003-11-29 22:41:33 +00:00
btree_gist Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
chkpass Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
cube Fix several contrib makefiles that failed in VPATH builds, particularly 2005-10-18 01:30:49 +00:00
dbase Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
dblink When a cursor is opened using dblink_open, only start a transaction 2005-10-18 02:55:49 +00:00
dbmirror Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
earthdistance Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
fulltextindex Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
intagg Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
intarray Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
isbn_issn PGXS should be set with := not =, as specified in the documentation, 2005-09-27 17:13:14 +00:00
lo PGXS should be set with := not =, as specified in the documentation, 2005-09-27 17:13:14 +00:00
ltree Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
mSQL-interface Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
mac make sure the $Id tags are converted to $PostgreSQL as well ... 2003-11-29 22:41:33 +00:00
oid2name Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
oracle Triggers should return TRIGGER not OPAQUE. Looks like this script got 2004-12-30 00:30:40 +00:00
pg_buffercache Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
pg_trgm Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
pgbench Fix unportable struct initializations. 2005-10-15 20:24:00 +00:00
pgcrypto Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
pgstattuple Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
seg Fix several contrib makefiles that failed in VPATH builds, particularly 2005-10-18 01:30:49 +00:00
spi Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
start-scripts Adjust postmaster to recognize that a lockfile containing its parent's PID 2004-10-01 18:30:25 +00:00
tablefunc Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
tips PGXS should be set with := not =, as specified in the documentation, 2005-09-27 17:13:14 +00:00
tsearch2 Fix several contrib makefiles that failed in VPATH builds, particularly 2005-10-18 01:30:49 +00:00
userlock PGXS should be set with := not =, as specified in the documentation, 2005-09-27 17:13:14 +00:00
vacuumlo Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
xml2 Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
Makefile Correct comment about why contrib/xml2 isn't built automatically. 2005-09-01 22:02:44 +00:00
README Remove contrib version of pg_autovacuum --- superseded by integrated 2005-07-29 19:38:22 +00:00
contrib-global.mk Some marginal tweaks to make 'make installcheck' mostly work when 2005-09-27 17:43:31 +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.  In these cases, 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:
------

adddepend -
	Add object dependency information to pre-7.3 objects.
	by Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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

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 <mail@joeconway.com>

dbmirror -
	Replication server
	by Steven Singer <ssinger@navtechinc.com>

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

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 <mail@joeconway.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@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

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> 

ltree -
	Tree-like data structures
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

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>

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_buffercache -
	Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_trgm -
	Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
	matching.
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

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 to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
	space within a table
	by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

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.

tablefunc -
	Examples of functions returning tables
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

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

tsearch2 -
	Full-text-index support using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> 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>

xml2 -
	Storing XML in PostgreSQL
	by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>