| From: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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: | 2013-12-02 20:15:59 |
| Message-ID: | m2zjojko00.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * David E. Wheeler (david(at)justatheory(dot)com) wrote:
>> This is true today, but only because PostgreSQL provides the
>> infrastructure for building and installing extensions that entails `make
>> && make install`. If Postgres provided some other method of building and
>> installing extensions, you could start using it right away on PGXN. The
>> *only* requirement for PGXN distributions, really, is a META.json file
>> describing the extension.
>
> Thanks, that's a pretty interesting point.. I like the idea that we
> could provide a new make target which could build an 'inline extension'
> (or what-have-you) which could then be distributed and used by users
> either directly or with some client-side tool.
+1
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support
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