Installation
This section describes the installation steps.
building binary module
Simply run make at the top of the source tree, then make install as an
appropriate user. The PATH environment variable should be set properly
to point to a PostgreSQL set of binaries:
$ tar xzvf pg_hint_plan-1.x.x.tar.gz
$ cd pg_hint_plan-1.x.x
$ make
$ su
$ make install
Loading pg_hint_plan
pg_hint_plan does not require CREATE EXTENSION. Loading it with a LOAD
command will activate it and of course you can load it globally by setting
shared_preload_libraries in postgresql.conf. Or you might be
interested in ALTER USER SET/ALTER DATABASE SET for automatic loading in
specific sessions.
sql
postgres=# LOAD 'pg_hint_plan';
LOAD
Run CREATE EXTENSION and SET pg_hint_plan.enable_hint_tables TO on if you
are planning to use the hint table.