Re: plperl and plperlu language extentsions

On 06/27/2018 08:27 AM, Niles Oien wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running postgres 10.4 on CentOS 7.5. I am having trouble getting 
> the plperl language extension going :
> 
> netdrms02.nispdc.nso.edu:5432 <http://netdrms02.nispdc.nso.edu:5432> 
> postgres@nsocu=# CREATE EXTENSION plperl;
> ERROR:  58P01: could not open extension control file 
> "/usr/pgsql-10/share/extension/plperl.control": No such file or directory
> LOCATION:  parse_extension_control_file, extension.c:494
> 
> Sure enough that file is not there :
> 
> [production@netdrms02 ~]$ ls /usr/pgsql-10/share/extension/
> plpgsql--1.0.sql  plpgsql.control  plpgsql--unpackaged--1.0.sql
> 
> 
> Yet plperl would seem to be installed :
> 
> # yum list | grep postgres | grep perl
> postgresql-plperl.x86_64                  9.2.23-3.el7_4               base
> postgresql10-plperl.x86_64                10.4-1PGDG.rhel7            
>   pgdg10

So where did you get the packages to install Postgres itself?:

a) The CentOsS repos

b) The PGDG repos

> 
> I need to do this for both plperl and plperlu. I think there is perhaps 
> something I don't have installed, but I can't tell what? I apologize if 
> this is obvious, the language extensions are not something I deal with 
> regularly.
> 
> If it helps, here is the result of "select version();" :
> PostgreSQL 10.4 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 
> 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28), 64-bit
> 
> Thanks for considering this,
> 
> Niles.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Niles Oien, National Solar Observatory, Boulder Colorado USA


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