Re: development setup and libdir

On Jan 30, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
>> For development purposes you would be far better off building a
>> private version of postgres (with configure --prefix=/path) and
>> using its pgxs to build, install and test your module.
>
> That's pretty expensive.

eh:

jwp(at)torch[]:org/postgresql/git 0% ls /src/build
pg pg-nodb-plpy pg81 pg83 pg85 pg_foreach py py31-nodb
pg-nodb pg80 pg82 pg84 pg90 pgweb py31

The tricky part is that they tend to multiply. ;)

> Requiring I compile a private version of postgres[1]
> increase the cost of development unreasonably,

That install of PG that you're using will *probably not* have debugging information.

Now, granted, you might not need PG with debugging for some problems, but chances are that you'll come across one (or two or fifty or so) where you *will* need it.

I'd suggest using a private install for dev as well. Enable debugging and casserts, and make sure your ulimit's allow core dumps.

I'm not sure if pgxs can do what you want or not, but using a private prefix works well enough for me.