Re: CREATE EXTENSION without superuser access

From: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE EXTENSION without superuser access
Date: 2016-04-28 18:00:16
Message-ID: 05BCF4E7-0662-4AEB-9FB6-3341EDC04903@blighty.com
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> On Apr 28, 2016, at 6:44 AM, Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
>
> On 04/27/2016 10:22 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:
>> Is there any way to install an extension either from a SQL connection or from a user-defined directory instead of .../extensions?
>>
>> (And if not, is there a TODO here?)
>
> There is actually a TODON'T here. Search the pgsql-hackers archives for
> some very, very long reading about "extension templates".
>
> This was (I think) the last thread about it:
> www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/m2bo5hfiqb(dot)fsf(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr

That's a very long thread. OK, I'll give up on using the extension
infrastructure.

Time to either fork pg_partman or write a little perl script that converts
extensions to not-extensions, I guess.

Cheers,
Steve

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