Craig Ringer wrote: > On 06/13/2013 11:16 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > This has served no purpose except to > > > > 1. take up space > > 2. confuse users > > 3. produce broken external extension modules that take contrib as an example > > 4. break builds of PostgreSQL when users try to fix 3. by exporting USE_PGXS > > Weak -1 from me; I find being able to build contrib modules using PGXS > from the source tree extremely useful in development. It allows me to > easily install an extension from a newer Pg version into an older > server, test against older servers, etc.
This use case seems too narrow to me to justify the burden of keeping PGXS-enabled makefiles in contrib. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
