How do I install/enable the uuid-ossp extension on Postgres 9.3?
I’m using Postgres 9.3 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04. How do I install/enable the uuid-ossp extension? I first verified the contrib package was installed …
root@prodbox:/home/rails/myproject# apt-get install postgresql-contrib Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done postgresql-contrib is already the newest version.
and then I logged in and tried to create the extension …
root@prodbox:/home/rails/myproject# su - postgres postgres@prodbox:~$ psql psql (9.6.0, server 9.3.11) Type "help" for help. postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp"; ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/share/postgresql/9.3/extension/uuid-ossp.control": No such file or directoryI’m all out of ideas. What am I missing?
These steps worked for me in my centos 7, when I was facing this issue in my postgres 12,
sudo yum install postgresql-contrib-12
sudo su - postgres or whatever your username for postgres is
psql to enter into postgresql cli commands line
CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp";