Re: Extensions, this time with a patch

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> If the extensions manager is dependent on the assumption that a module's
>> name matches the name of the directory it's built in

> It is not. There's some magic for simple cases so that contrib mostly
> "works" with no editing, but of course, that's only mostly.

> The version Itakagi-San worked with had not a single change to the
> contrib sources,

I don't think that "no changes to the makefiles" is a requirement,
or even a wish-list item, for this. I think it's perfectly reasonable
for the makefile to have to specify the module name; far better that
than that we get the name by some "magic" or other.

regards, tom lane