April 2018
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One good way to check whether you have contrib modules installed is to see if the program is available. That's one of the few contrib components that installs a full program, rather than just the scripts you can use. Here's a Unix example of checking for pgbench :
$ pgbench -V pgbench (PostgreSQL) 10.0
If you're using an RPM or DEB packaged version of PostgreSQL, as the case would be on many Linux systems, the optional package contains all of the contrib modules and their associated installer scripts. You may have to add that package using yum, apt-get, or a similar mechanism if it wasn't installed already. On Solaris, the package is named SUNWpostgr-contrib .
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