Re: Extension Templates S03E11

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Extension Templates S03E11
Date: 2013-12-04 22:26:23
Message-ID: 529FAC0F.80501@gmx.net
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On 12/3/13, 9:20 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Another option, which I generally like better, is to have a new package
> format for PGXN that contains the results of "make install",
> more-or-less, synonymous to Debian source vs. .deb packages.
>
> Perhaps we could even have psql understand that format and be able to
> install the extension via a backslash command instead of having an
> external tool, but I think an external tool for dependency tracking and
> downloading of necessary dependencies ala Debian would be better than
> teaching psql to do that.

How would that handle varying file system layouts on the backend?

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