I am on it , I understand your concern. I will send you the sample code and
pldebugger details to test the logic ASAP .Thanks.> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008
23:36:42 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:
[HACKERS] PLUGINS Functionlity in Win32 build scripts> CC:
pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org> > >> I've been assigned to review this patch, but
I confess I'm a little> >> murky on what problem it's trying to solve. Can you
explain what I> >> need to do to recreate the problem?> > In postgreSQL, Plugin
modules should be installed in (Installation> > dir)lib/plugins to run
properly. There is logic in src/makefiles/pgxs.mk for> > handling shared
objects implemented as e.g. "Modules" variable that are> > installed in
(Installation dir)/lib. There should be some way to handle> > plugins as well.
We faced this issue during the integration of contrib> > module pldebugger (
http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000175 ) with the> > edb-postgresql code.
pldebugger/Makefile handles plugins by itself,> > Unix/Linux don't mind it
because it build through make. On windows, perl> > scripts are used to build
the system that relies on Makefiles that uses> > pgxs.mk variables e.g
"Modules" etc. It fails to build pldebugger that> > implements its own plugin
build logic in its Makefile. Right now for us> > there is only one plugin
module but in future there may be more.Instead of> > any workaround we come up
to a better solution to handle plugins> > automatically by pgxs.mk as other
shared objects are being handled on Unix> > and Windows. We added PLUGIN logic
in pgxs.mk and windows perl build scripts> > so that there is no need to handle
plugins separately by new contrib> > modules.> > I am a bit dubious about the
idea of adding supposedly generic> functionality to cater to a single client,
but the bigger problem is> that even after reading this I still don't really
know what I'm> supposed to be looking at. I think you're saying that
pldebugger> contains some code that could be made simpler and less easily
broken> if this patch were applied. Is that correct? If so, please tell me>
where to download the pldebugger code and which file(s) to look in for> the
code that could be improved.> > ...Robert
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