Re: Where is contrib?

> this may be a very stupid question. I've always used the source rpms for new
> versions. However now I'm faced with a ubuntu server and I never used a
> non-rpm system.
> Since there is no up-to-date postgresql package I grabbed the source for 8.1.8
> and compiled/installed it.
> So far so good. Now I'm looking for the contrib directory. But it's not in the
> source tarball nor anywhere on ftp.postgresql.org.
> So the question is: where can I find the contrib tree for download?

It should be where you unpacked your source tarball at postgresql-8.1.8/contrib

After running configure, there are instruction in contrib for building
and installing the individually contributed packages.

Good luck,
Stuart.