Compiling plv8 extension for PostgreSQL 12
2020-11-13
There are no Linux binaries available for recent versions of the plv8 extesion, which adds JavaScript support to PostreSQL.
Compiling the extension manually is a little tricky, because additional dependencies are necessary (discussed here), while no copy of the V8 library, such as libnode-dev, must be installed (discussed here). The build also relies on python 2. This is how it should work on a Ubuntu 20.10 setup:
# See https://github.com/plv8/plv8/issues/387#issuecomment-605663975 for all libraries that may be an issue:
sudo apt-get remove libnode libnode-dev
# See https://github.com/plv8/plv8/issues/283#issuecomment-397359439
sudo apt-get install python postgresql-server-dev-12 make git pkg-config chromium-browser subversion clang apg ninja-build cmake libc++-dev libc++abi-dev
wget https://github.com/plv8/plv8/archive/v2.3.15.tar.gz
tar xfvz v2.3.15.tar.gz
cd plv8...
sudo make
sudo make install
make installcheck
Enjoy!
