On Jun 12, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> 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
>
> There is adequate material in the documentation and elsewhere (PGXN) on
> how to write extensions and their makefiles, so this is not needed.
+1 Nice.
David