Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Mark Cave-Ayland" <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows
Date: 2007-11-27 07:30:48
Message-ID: 200711270830.50118.peter_e@gmx.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I think he said too, but it strikes me as a completely
> bogus policy --- what about contrib modules or stuff from pgfoundry
> or any random user-written module that was built with PGXS?  All that
> stuff happily drops files under $libdir and $sharedir, and I see no good
> argument why it shouldn't.

We have an implicit policy for those two specific cases, which are OK with me.
I guess it's better to look at specific use cases instead of interpreting
other people's abstract directory descriptions. ;-)

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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