Re: Why can't I use pgxs to build a plpgsql plugin?

On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 12:28 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 08.04.2012 11:59, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently wrote a plpgsql plugin. I wanted to enable the use of pgxs,
> > to make it easier to compile the plugin, but I eventually found that I
> > can't do that because the plpgsql.h file is not available in the include
> > directory.
> >
> > I'm wondering if we shouldn't put the header files of plpgsql source
> > code in the include directory. It would help compiling the PL/pgsql
> > debugger, and profiler (and of course my own plugin).
>
> Yep, I just bumped into this myself, while trying to make pldebugger
> module compilable with pgxs.
>
> > There could be a good reason which would explain why we can't (or don't
> > want to) do this, but I don't see it right now.
>
> Me neither, except a general desire to keep internals hidden. I propose
> the attached.
>

Sounds good to me. I would love to see this happening in 9.2.

Thanks, Heikki.

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