| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_migrator mention in documentation |
| Date: | 2009-07-04 11:26:13 |
| Message-ID: | 407d949e0907040426i218d45f4vc68c5d983c1df4fb@mail.gmail.com |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The main reason contrib still has the alternate method is that PGXS
> doesn't really work until after you've installed the core build.
> For modules distributed separately from core, it doesn't seem that
> exciting to be able to build using the contrib method.
>
> Now, having said that, I'm personally interested in being able to build
> pg_migrator against an uninstalled source tree, because I foresee
> needing to do that for RPM packaging purposes. But I could easily patch
> the makefiles if needed to make that happen. I don't think this case
> should drive the choice of what's the default or common method.
Couldn't we provide a special pg_config and makefiles in the source
tree which know the right paths and does the right thing for in-tree
builds?
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Boszormenyi Zoltan | 2009-07-04 13:39:14 | ECPG support for string pseudo-type |
| Previous Message | Robert Haas | 2009-07-04 10:27:11 | Re: [HACKERS] commitfest.postgresql.org |