John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> writes:
> can't you install the contrib module as a regular database user into the
> database you own?
No, it would take superuser privs which he hasn't got. More, even with
superuser privs it would need the tsearch2.so library to be present on
disk, which it likely isn't if they aren't supporting contrib. And
(which is actually a somewhat legitimate reason for them to deny
support) it's fairly difficult to do anything useful with tsearch2
without the ability to write/edit its config files, which requires
outside-the-database filesystem access.
regards, tom lane