Re: Extensions User Design

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Extensions User Design
Date: 2009-06-25 14:16:18
Message-ID: 20257.1245939378@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Dimitri Fontaine<dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to design this part of the extension system with only
>>> PGXS in mind and later adapt the windows toolsuite?

> We do it for Makefiles in contrib, so in theory it should be doable.

> The problem is, I think, that the Makefile format is way too flexible.

I think the contrib makefiles are considered to be our standard test
suite for PGXS. If a 3rd-party makefile is doing anything not
represented in contrib, it's not guaranteed to work anyway. So I'd
be plenty satisfied if we just made the existing contrib infrastructure
work for 3rd-party modules.

regards, tom lane

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