On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 09:29 -0400, Andrew Geery wrote:
> In the postgresql-contrib-8.4.4-1PGDG.rhel4 RPM (downloaded from
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.4.4/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-4-i386/),
> there is no installation script or libraries for the uuid_* functions:
>
> # rpm -qlp postgresql-contrib-8.4.4-1PGDG.rhel4.i386.rpm | grep -i uid
> /usr/share/doc/postgresql-contrib-8.4.4/uninstall_uuid-ossp.sql
>
> Is that functionality someplace else and, if not, what is the best way
> of adding this functionality to a Linux server?
IIRC uuid cannot be compiled on RHEL 4, that's why RHEL 4 packages do
not have uuid support. You will need to use RHEL5 for that.
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