Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib
Date: 2013-06-17 16:41:32
Message-ID: 20130617164132.GB3537@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Joe Conway wrote:

> On 06/15/2013 11:28 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > This use case seems too narrow to me to justify the burden of
> > keeping PGXS-enabled makefiles in contrib.
>
> What was the burden of it?

Per http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1371093408.309.5.camel@vanquo.pezone.net :

: 1. take up space
: 2. confuse users
: 3. produce broken external extension modules that take contrib as an example
: 4. break builds of PostgreSQL when users try to fix 3. by exporting USE_PGXS

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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