Re: Runtime SHAREDIR for testing CREATE EXTENSION

Sandro Santilli <strk(at)keybit(dot)net> writes:
> 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.

Please see the "inline extension" thread where answers to your problem
have been discussed.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=746

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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