Re: Runtime SHAREDIR for testing CREATE EXTENSION

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:21:17AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

We do a staged installation of the extension library and scripts
in an ad-hoc dir which does not match the built-in SHAREDIR of PostgreSQL.

It works fine for testing the extension directly sourcing the scripts.
It's only "CREATE EXTENSION" that doesn't play nicely with that setup.

--strk;