Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: 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: 2007-11-26 17:04:46
Message-ID: 474AFCAE.2090900@postgresql.org
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
>> I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of
>> projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but
>
> The share directory is the wrong place for configuration files anyway. And
> moreover, non-PostgreSQL packages have no business putting files into
> PostgreSQL's private directories.
>

How does that work with the stuff that goes into directories relative to
$libdir (per documented recommendations), without creating easy-to-break
paths like $libdir/../../MyAddon/8.3/MyAddon.dll?

Regards, Dave

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