Re: Runtime SHAREDIR for testing CREATE EXTENSION

From: Sandro Santilli <strk(at)keybit(dot)net>
To: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Runtime SHAREDIR for testing CREATE EXTENSION
Date: 2012-02-24 16:28:43
Message-ID: 20120224162843.GN9498@gnash
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 06:53:05PM -0800, Daniel Farina wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Dimitri Fontaine
> <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
> > Sandro Santilli <strk(at)keybit(dot)net> writes:
> > Please see the "inline extension" thread where answers to your problem
> > have been discussed.
>
> I'm pretty sure Sandro is hacking PostGIS, so inline extensions are of
> no help here.
>
> Can you tell us why alternative approaches that don't require adding a
> knob (such as copying/symlinking of compiled artifacts) is such a huge
> pain for you?

It's not specifically a pain for me, but it breaks the
"tests can be run in a staged environment" idiom.

See Christoph Berg mail, that's exactly the same issue.

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