postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 3fb6f1347f Replace cryptic 'Unknown kind of return type' messages with something
hopefully a little more useful.
2003-06-15 17:59:10 +00:00
..
adddepend Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
array Cause CHAR(n) to TEXT or VARCHAR conversion to automatically strip trailing 2003-05-26 00:11:29 +00:00
btree_gist Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
chkpass Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
cube Ensure that in all flex lexers that are part of the backend, a 2003-05-29 22:30:02 +00:00
dbase Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
dblink Replace cryptic 'Unknown kind of return type' messages with something 2003-06-15 17:59:10 +00:00
dbmirror Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
dbsize pgindent run. 2002-09-04 20:31:48 +00:00
earthdistance Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
findoidjoins Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
fulltextindex Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
intagg Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
intarray Update expected file to match new _int.sql. 2003-06-11 19:43:36 +00:00
ipc_check start of an admin tool for FreeBSD to help configure shared memory for 2001-02-27 15:37:39 +00:00
isbn_issn Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
lo Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
ltree Changes: 2003-06-11 18:44:15 +00:00
mSQL-interface pgindent run. 2002-09-04 20:31:48 +00:00
mac Move contrib/odbc/odbc.sql together with odbc driver, remove old files; 2000-09-18 20:11:37 +00:00
miscutil Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
mysql Upgrade to my2pg 1.9 2003-01-07 22:18:43 +00:00
noupdate Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
oid2name Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
oracle Upgrade to even newer ora2pg 2.0. 2003-01-07 22:17:14 +00:00
pg_autovacuum This patch updates pg_autovacuum in several ways: 2003-06-12 01:36:44 +00:00
pg_dumplo Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
pg_logger New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed, 2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
pg_upgrade Make pg_resetxlog options parsing more standard and prepare messages for 2002-08-29 22:19:03 +00:00
pgbench Fix uninitialized memory bug 2003-06-10 09:07:15 +00:00
pgcrypto Fix various recent build and regression-test problems in contrib/. 2003-05-14 03:27:22 +00:00
pgstattuple New patch with corrected README attached. 2003-06-12 08:02:57 +00:00
reindexdb Repair quoting sloppiness, lack of schema awareness in reindexdb. 2003-05-19 01:00:12 +00:00
rserv Make debug_ GUC varables output DEBUG1 rather than LOG, and mention in 2003-05-27 17:49:47 +00:00
rtree_gist Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
seg Ensure that in all flex lexers that are part of the backend, a 2003-05-29 22:30:02 +00:00
spi Remove platform-specific executable; does not belong in distribution. 2003-06-11 14:02:57 +00:00
start-scripts Add Linux restart --- Slawomir Sudnik 2003-06-12 02:02:24 +00:00
string This patch fixes a bunch of spelling mistakes in comments throughout the 2003-03-10 22:28:22 +00:00
tablefunc Replace cryptic 'Unknown kind of return type' messages with something 2003-06-15 17:59:10 +00:00
tips Remove the last traces of datatypes datetime and timespan. 2002-05-03 04:11:08 +00:00
tools Another round of those unportable config/build changes :-/ 2000-07-09 13:14:19 +00:00
tsearch Ensure that in all flex lexers that are part of the backend, a 2003-05-29 22:30:02 +00:00
userlock Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
vacuumlo Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
xml Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The 2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
Makefile I have updated my pg_autovacuum program (formerly pg_avd, the name 2003-03-20 18:14:46 +00:00
README I have updated my pg_autovacuum program (formerly pg_avd, the name 2003-03-20 18:14:46 +00:00
contrib-global.mk Make it possible to run 'make installcheck' in contrib when building 2002-11-02 00:16:21 +00:00

README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of
the main source tree.  This does not preclude their usefulness.

Each subdirectory contains a README file with information about the
module.  Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed with
`gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the `configure'
script in the top-level directory.  Some directories supply new
user-defined functions, operators, or types.  After you have installed
the files you need to register the new entities in the database system
by running the commands in the supplied .sql file.  For example,

	$ psql -d dbname -f module.sql

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.


Index:
------

adddepend -
	Add object dependency information to pre-7.3 objects.
	by Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

array -
	Array iterator functions
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

btree_gist -
	Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>

chkpass -
	An auto-encrypted password datatype
	by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>

cube -
	Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

dbase -
	Converts from dbase/xbase to PostgreSQL
	by Maarten.Boekhold <Maarten.Boekhold@reuters.com>,
	   Frank Koormann <fkoorman@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de>,
	   Ivan Baldo <lubaldo@adinet.com.uy>

dblink -
	Allows remote query execution
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

dbmirror -
	Replication server
	by Steven Singer <ssinger@navtechinc.com>

dbsize -
	Reports database and table disk space
	by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

earthdistance -
	Operator for computing earth distance for two points
	by Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>

findoidjoins -
	Finds the joins used by oid columns by examining the actual
	values in the oid columns and row oids.
	by Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

fulltextindex -
	Full text indexing using triggers
	by Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>

fuzzystrmatch -
	Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

intagg -
	Integer aggregator
	by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

intarray -
	Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

ipc_check -
	Simple test script to help in configuring IPC.
	FreeBSD only, for now.

isbn_issn -
	PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN (books) and ISSN (serials)
	by Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

lo -
	Large Object maintenance
	by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> 

ltree -
	Tree-like data structures
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

mSQL-interface -
	mSQL API translation library
	by Aldrin Leal <aldrin@americasnet.com>

mac -
	Support functions for MAC address types
	by Lawrence E. Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>

miscutil -
	PostgreSQL assert checking and various utility functions
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

mysql -
	Utility to convert MySQL schema dumps to SQL92 and PostgreSQL
	by Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
	   Max Rudensky <fonin@ziet.zhitomir.ua>
	   Valentine Danilchuk <valdan@ziet.zhitomir.ua>

noupdate -
	Trigger to prevent updates on single columns

oid2name - 
	Maps numeric files to table names
	by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>

oracle -
	Converts Oracle database schema to PostgreSQL
	by Gilles Darold <gilles@darold.net>

pg_autovacuum -
	Automatically performs vacuum
	by Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>

pg_dumplo -
	Dump large objects
	by Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>

pg_logger -
	Stdin-to-syslog gateway for PostgreSQL
	by Nathan Myers <ncm@nospam.cantrip.org>

pg_upgrade -
	Upgrade from previous PostgreSQL version without pg_dump/reload
	by Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

pgbench -
	TPC-B like benchmarking tool
	by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

pgcrypto -
	Cryptographic functions
	by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

reindexdb - 
	Reindexes a database
	by Shaun Thomas <sthomas@townnews.com>

pgstattuple -
	A function returns the percentage of "dead" tuples in a table
	by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

rserv -
	Replication server
	by Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim4o@email.com>

rtree_gist -
	Support for emulating RTREE indexing in GiST
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>

seg -
	Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

spi -
	Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.

start-scripts - 
	Scripts for starting the server at boot time.
	
string -
	C-like input/output conversion routines for strings
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

tablefunc -
	Examples of functions returning tables
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

tips/apache_logging -
	Getting Apache to log to PostgreSQL
	by Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>

tools -
	Assorted developer tools
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

tsearch -
	Full-text-index support using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net> and Oleg Bartunov
	<oleg@sai.msu.su>.

userlock -
	User locks
	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

vacuumlo -
	Remove orphaned large objects
	by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

xml -
	Storing XML in PostgreSQL
	by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>