Or you compile it?
And I would have expected to need to get a current library or two and thence a custom load path. That said, it might not have taken as long as the packaged based efforts. Nothing near as quick as realizing one can just load the sql though!That was going to be my next step. But I don't think a simple compile from source would do because Ubuntu's package manager wouldn't be awarethat Postgresql was now available to satisfy other packages' dependencies.So I would need to rebuild the Ubuntu source package. I have done that on Fedora several times where it has been, in my limited experience, usually simple and problem free. But I have read that building packages on Ubuntu is much more arcane so I wasn't looking forward to it.That is pretty much the case when you build from source, it will live outside the OS packaging universe. I have built from source on Ubuntu it is not any more difficult then other distros, just remember to install build-essential. As far a dependencies basically the only things that will have a Postgres dependency will be other Postgres software e.g. psycopg2, etc. That means you will need to build them from source also, though that is helped along by pg_config which will find your source install and build the other software to match. It also means uninstalling the Ubuntu Postgres packages so you don't cross contaminate.
