>>>> I read through the Postgres doc and many Google results, but it seems >>>> still unclear to me how to include additional packages into my postgres >>>> database. I see that there are a few installed under >>>> "/usr/local/pgsql-9.1/share/extension/" (I am on Lion and installed the >>>> Kyngchaos libs). But as I want to install crosstab now, I downloaded the >>>> source code for postgres, run a make/install - and now wonder what to do >>>> with it. I could eventually load the .sql file as usual; but it seems this >>>> should be now avoided, and loaded as an extension. I tried to copy three >>>> files (--1.0.sql, --unpackaged.sql and the normal .sql) to the folder and >>>> then load it from PgAdmin, but this results in an error message ("could >>>> not access file "$libdir/tablefunc""). >>> >>> This should do the trick: >>> >>> CREATE EXTENSION crosstab; >> >> Thanks a lot. Yes, that's the command I used when it launches the above error message. The question is more about: "where do I need to place the tablefunc files (and which ones) in order to execute successfully that command"? > > make install should copy files including $libdir/tablefunc. If not, > you should take a look at the output of the make command. Make sure > your PATH points to pg_config that your database is running with. I do as indicated in Kyngchaos ReadMe file: export PATH="/usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin:$PATH" export USE_PGXS=1 make sudo make install Problem is that when I run the install, it shows this: Makefile:19: ../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or directory Makefile:20: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop. And this, after looking around, seem to indicate that I need to configure the Postgres source code. But there, with: ./configure --with-openssl --with-pam --with-krb5 --with-gssapi --with-ldap --enable-thread-safety --with-bonjour --with-python --without-perl --enable-nls --with-libxml CFLAGS=-Os x86_64 LD=gcc LDLFAGS=-arch x86_64 I run into another problem: configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target checking build system type... x86_64-pc-none checking host system type... x86_64-pc-none checking which template to use... configure: error: ******************************************************************* PostgreSQL has apparently not been ported to your platform yet. Thanks for any hints how to solve that riddle! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general