Re: createlang on Mac OS X

["Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:35:54AM -0800, steven(dot)cardinal(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> I installed the PostgreSQL tools for Mac from the sourceforge site
> (8.1.5). The server and client tools installed fine and the server is
> running and accessible. However, it doesn't appear that the language
> libraries got installed, as I can't install plpgsql. I get:
> 
> could not access file "$libdir/plpgsql": No such file or directory
> 
> Unfortunately the bug reporting system on the postgresqlformac site
> isn't working. Has anyone here gotten the langauge libraries to install
> for use by this package? Is there a way to build and install just those
> files? I like the convenience of the binary installer from the
> postgresqlformac folks - are there other projects that have a binary
> installer for Mac - I really don't want to recompile everytime an
> update comes out.

I haven't looked at the postgresqlformac stuff (you might try emailing
them...), but you might want to look at using http://macports.org. They
have a number of PostgreSQL ports, and they build plpgsql.
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