Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib
Date: 2013-06-17 17:00:51
Message-ID: 201306171901.04730.cedric@2ndquadrant.com
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Le lundi 17 juin 2013 18:41:32, Alvaro Herrera a écrit :
> Joe Conway wrote:
> > On 06/15/2013 11:28 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > This use case seems too narrow to me to justify the burden of
> > > keeping PGXS-enabled makefiles in contrib.
> >
> > What was the burden of it?
>
> Per http://www.postgresql.org/message-
id/1371093408(dot)309(dot)5(dot)camel(at)vanquo(dot)pezone(dot)net :
> : 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

But:
4. can be fixed (see patches I sent) so it is not an excuse.

I agree for other points.
My only grief is to loose the perfect regression tests for PGXS those contribs
are.

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