Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib

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On 06/15/2013 11:28 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

What was the burden of it?

Joe

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