Postgres extension for the CartoDB IP addresses geocoder. It is meant to contain the functions and related objects needed to geocode by IP addresses. It is not meant to contain the actual data used to geocode them.

Dependencies

This extension is thought to be used on top of CartoDB platform. Therefore a cartodb user is required to install the extension onto it.

The following is a non-comprehensive list of dependencies:

Postgres 9.3+
Postgis extension
Schema triggers extension
CartoDB extension

Installation into the db cluster

This requires root privileges

sudo make all install

Execute tests

PGUSER=postgres make installcheck

Install onto a user's database

psql -U cartodb_dev_user_367c0edc-b2ad-4bab-ad43-3d58a6179a93_db cartodb_dev_user_367c0edc-b2ad-4bab-ad43-3d58a6179a93_db

and then:

CREATE EXTENSION cdb_geocoder_ipaddr;

The extension creation in the user's db does not require special privileges. It can be even created from the sql api.