David, * David E. Wheeler (da...@justatheory.com) wrote: > On Dec 2, 2013, at 6:14 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote: > > > Whether you're targetting a file system template or a catalog template, > > PGXN is not a complete solution, you still need to build the extension. > > This is true today, but only because PostgreSQL provides the infrastructure > for building and installing extensions that entails `make && make install`. > If Postgres provided some other method of building and installing extensions, > you could start using it right away on PGXN. The *only* requirement for PGXN > distributions, really, is a META.json file describing the extension.
Thanks, that's a pretty interesting point.. I like the idea that we
could provide a new make target which could build an 'inline extension'
(or what-have-you) which could then be distributed and used by users
either directly or with some client-side tool.
Thanks,
Stephen
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