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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing modules from a manually downloaded package

You might have to install a module that is correctly packaged for your system, but is not available from the official package archives. For instance, it could be the case that the module has not been accepted in the official repository yet, or you may have repackaged a bespoke version of that module with some custom tweaks, which are so specific that they will never become official. Whatever the case, you will have to follow the installation procedure for standalone packages specific to your system.

Here is an example with the Oracle compatibility module, described at http://postgres.cz/wiki/Oracle_functionality_(en):

  1. First, we get the package (say, for PostgreSQL 8.4 on a 64-bit architecture) ...
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