Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of mié mar 30 10:27:39 -0300 2011:
> Excerpts from Dimitri Fontaine's message of mié mar 30 05:27:07 -0300 2011:

> > I'm not sure why we still support the pre-PGXS build recipe in the
> > contrib Makefiles, and didn't want to change that as part as the
> > extension patch series, but I think we should reconsider.
> 
> This is in the archives somewhere.  I think it's something to do with
> the fact that "make check" doesn't work under PGXS; you have to use
> "make installcheck".  Or maybe it was something else.  I don't really
> remember the details.  I also pushed for this, a long time ago.

In http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg00245.php
Tom writes:

> The main reason contrib still has the alternate method is that PGXS
> doesn't really work until after you've installed the core build.

Maybe we could have a look and try to fix that problem.

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