On 06/04/2013 09:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
It presumably wouldn't be terribly hard for Oliver to patch the sources to look in something other than SHAREDIR/extension/, but I'm not sure I see the point of inventing a platform-specific name for that directory; seems like it would mostly just confuse users coming from other platforms. Instead, what about not treating that directory as part of the base package in the first place? If you've got the concept of directories that multiple packages can install into, just make this be one of those.
I currently have postgresql patched to search getenv("PGSHAREDIR") before looking at SHAREDIR, which seems to work. As I said in a previous reply - by my understanding it should all just work without any patches, but for some reason the path coming out from get_share_dir is not relative to the executable symlink, but is relative to executable under that symlink. If that problem can be solved, then everything can just carry on working.
-- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
