It took me a while, but I finally figured out that the citext module did not require a recompile, it just required all the compile information, specifically the config.status file, which wasn't there. After I extracted the sources and ran ./configure for postgresql, the contrib module compiled very nicely. I would think that emerge would keep all those sometimes needed configuration files in the directory with the Makefile "Sim Zacks" <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d0n25q$13pk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > I just installed postgresql on a new gentoo server using emerge and I would > like to add the citext module for a case insensitive text type. Emerge does > not have a citext option in postgresql or package. > Does anyone know how to get the citext into postgresql on gentoo and will > this break the next time I upgrade postgresql? > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster