| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Runtime SHAREDIR for testing CREATE EXTENSION |
| Date: | 2012-02-24 18:19:59 |
| Message-ID: | 1330107599.32452.15.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On fre, 2012-02-24 at 11:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > We have the same problem with testing extensions at build-time in
> the
> > Debian packages. The server's SHAREDIR /usr/share/postgresql/... is
> > only writable by root, while the build is running as buildd user, so
> > there is no way to do "create extension whatimbuildingrightnow" to
> be
> > able to run regression tests, even if this is a cluster I have just
> > created with initdb.
>
> This seems like nonsense. If the build process has installed the
> software, you surely have got permissions to write in that directory.
The build process just installs the software in a fake root where it
will be wrapped up by the packaging software.
> If you haven't installed the software, you need to do testing in a
> temporary installation per "make check", and we are able to test
> extensions that way too.
>
That looks like the right answer.
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