Thank you Tom. I have already started running queries from the corresponding extension. Let's see how far I get! :)
Regards, Nandish On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Nandish Jayaram <njaya...@pivotal.io> writes: > > I have been trying to get pgpointcloud running on greenplum 5.0 database. > > This might seem like a convoluted topic to discuss on this mailing list, > but > > the reason I am asking here is that Greenplum 5 is based on postgres 8.4 > > and pgpointcloud requires at least postgres 9.0 it seems. > > [ scratches head... ] The whole concept of extensions came in with PG 9.1. > So unless Greenplum cherry-picked that feature from later, I don't > understand how you didn't get something more like this: > > =# create extension foo; > ERROR: syntax error at or near "extension" > LINE 1: create extension foo; > ^ > > > So I am wondering: > > how does one figure out which postgres 9.0 features in particular does > > pgpointcloud depend on? > > You could try feeding the extension's SQL file directly to psql (in a > scratch database so you can clean up easily). If, as is considered > good practice, it starts with something like this: > > -- complain if script is sourced in psql, rather than via CREATE EXTENSION > \echo Use "CREATE EXTENSION cube" to load this file. \quit > > then you'll need to delete that; but the rest of it should be regular > SQL, and you can see what's failing. > > regards, tom lane >
