Re: build contrib

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> John Liu <johnl@emrx.com> wrote:
>> How to build some of those contrib? Can you add one of contrib on the
>> existing Postgresql without reconfigure, rebuild, and reinstall?

> As long as you haven't done a make clean (or distclean) since your
> last build:
> cd contrib/whatever
> make
> make install

Also, if you want to build all the contrib modules, just do the makes
in the contrib directory.

One other point is that most of the more-recently-written contrib
modules support "make installcheck" (though not "make check").

> I always stop the postmaster when I do this, though I am not sure if you
> really need to do that

You don't.

            regards, tom lane