Sandro Santilli <strk(at)keybit(dot)net> writes:
> I'm trying to understand what options I have to test "CREATE EXTENSION"
> w/out installing the extension files in their final destination.
There aren't any. Generally speaking, if you want to be testing an
extension, you should be doing it in a test installation anyway;
so I don't see what's the objection to sticking the files into the
installation's real SHAREDIR.
regards, tom lane