From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> |
Cc: | Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Extensions, this time with a patch |
Date: | 2010-10-20 14:46:53 |
Message-ID: | 26464.1287586013@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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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
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