Are there steps to enable on existing postgres?

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EG: Can I just make and make install it since it's an extension?

I didn't see an install in the Makefile but maybe I missed it.

[wuputah]

Yeah you can certainly do a native build of the columnar and add it to your local Postgres. The Hydra image / service has more extensions than just the columnar extension but obviously columnar is the most fun part.

Pre-reqs:

• You'll need a standard build env and dev postgres install... you can grab the packages from the Dockerfile
• You'll need liblz4-dev and libzstd-dev for a full build, or you can pass --without-... as applicable to ./configure

(It will also build natively on Mac, but I don't have a list of homebrew packages for ya.)

After that, this should work:

cd ./columnar
./configure
cd src/backend/columnar
sudo make install

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Wicked, thanks!