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Before commit b8cc8f947, it was possible to build contrib/uuid-ossp without having told configure you meant to; you could just cd into that directory and "make". That no longer works because the code depends on configure to have done header and library probes, but the ensuing error messages are not so easy to interpret if you're not an old C hand. We've gotten a couple of complaints recently from people trying to do this the low-tech way, so add an explicit #error directing the user to use --with-uuid. (In principle we might want to do something similar in the other optionally-built contrib modules; but I don't think any of the others have ever worked without preconfiguration, so there are no bad habits to break people of.) Back-patch to 9.4 where the previous commit came in. Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAHeEsBf42AWTnk=1qJvFv+mYgRFm07Knsfuc86Ono8nRjf3tvQ@mail.gmail.com Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAKYdkBrUaZX+F6KpmzoHqMtiUqCtAW_w6Dgvr6F0WTiopuGxow@mail.gmail.com
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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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 "make all" and "make
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.