Re: Installing temporal "period" data type and support functions

JJTurner@statestreet.com ("Turner, John J") writes:
> You've run into an extreme greenhead here, so my thanks to you for your
> consideration.  I'm also at sea with this forum, so I'm not sure how my
> replies need to be addressed/directed in order to maintain the thread
> online?
>
> Re: postgres, I simply installed the package, not the source code.
>
> So based on that and your advice, I would need to install the
> Development package (postgresql-devel)?  I don't see anything directly
> relating to that on the Downloads site...
>
> I have a "pg_config.exe" located in c:\program
> files\PostgreSQL\9.0\bin... beyond that I'm stumped at the moment, I'm
> afraid

You shouldn't need the whole PostgreSQL source code tree.

PGTemporal, if it's code similar to...
   <http://github.com/davidfetter/PostgreSQL-Temporal>
  or
   <http://temporal.projects.postgresql.org/>
uses what's called "PGXS" to minimize the profile of how much of the
PostgreSQL sources you need around.

You can find docs on PGXS here:
    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xfunc-c.html

It certainly does need pg_config to know how to get stuff linked into
the PostgreSQL instance; the fact you have that seems promising.

You probably want to add a line to the PGTemporal Makefile to tell it to
use PGXS.   See the one marked "cbbrowne" :-).

-----------------------------------------------
MODULES = period
DATA_built = period.sql
DATA = uninstall_period.sql

USE_PGXS=yes    # cbbrowne sez add this.  This says to use PGXS

ifdef USE_PGXS
PG_CONFIG = pg_config
PGXS := $(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --pgxs)
include $(PGXS)
else
subdir = contrib/temporal
top_builddir = ../..
include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
include $(top_srcdir)/contrib/contrib-global.mk
endif
-----------------------------------------------

You need some dev tools installed, notably suitable C compiler, GNU
Make.  I don't know how one arranges that on Windows, alas.
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