How to install pgcrypto extension in postgres 10 on CentOS 7

Question

I'm in the process of creating a postgres database for production in CentOS 7. So I already installed (yum install postgresql10-server postgresql10 after adding the repos of course) and configured postgres 10. However, in my scripts I need to install pgcrypto extension and I haven't successfully install it. This is what I've done so far:

1. the first error I got was saying that the /usr/pgsql-10/share/extension/pgcrypto.control files does not exist. Googling I realized that I have to install postgres-contrib package, which I did and then restarted postgres service, but the error continues due to the fact that the extensions were installed into /usr/share/pgsql/extension, so I copied the extension files from they were installed to they were expected and then

2. appears this message

   "ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/pgcrypto": No such file or directory"

   Googling again I found that maybe I need to give another option, so I ran CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto FROM unpackaged; then

3. the error message now is

   ERROR: function digest(text, text) does not exist

And I'm stuck and without any idea what to do next. Is anybody else using this extension in postgres 10 on Linux?, if so, how did you create the extension?

Version info: PostgreSQL 10.1 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16), 64-bit

Answer 1

From the docs on CREATE EXTENSION

PostgreSQL will create the extension using details from the file SHAREDIR/extension/extension_name.control.

You need to check what SHAREDIR is set to with pg_config --sharedir. If that's not set to /usr/share/pgsql/extension then likely your postgresql-contrib was packaged by someone different than your copy of postgresql. These are compile time variables and they should be the same. Moving them in likely won't work either because if these are packaged by two separate entities they're likely built against different libraries.

CentOS

In your case I assume

1. You're installing the PostgreSQL from the PostgreSQL repos.
2. You're installing the -contrib from the CentOS repos.

What you probably want to do is install from the CentOS repos. Uninstall all things related to PostgreSQL, and delete those files you copied or linked and run this

# Adds the PostgreSQL repo
rpm -Uvh https://yum.postgresql.org/10/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-centos10-10-2.noarch.rpm

# I think this should install them explicitly from the PostgreSQL repo
rpm -Uvh https://yum.postgresql.org/10/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/postgresql10-10.1-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://yum.postgresql.org/10/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/postgresql10-contrib-10.1-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64.rpm