PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

Installing a contrib module from source

Building your own PostgreSQL from source code can be a straightforward exercise on some platforms if you have the appropriate requirements already installed on the server. Details are documented at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-procedure.html.

After building the main server code, you'll also need to compile contrib modules by yourself too. Here's an example of how that would work, presuming that your PostgreSQL destination is /usr/local/postgresql, and that there's a directory there named source you put the source code into (this is not intended to be a typical or recommended structure you should use):

$ cd /usr/local/postgresql/source
$ cd contrib/pg_buffercache/
$ make
$ make ...