Re: libpq_pipeline in tmp_install

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: libpq_pipeline in tmp_install
Date: 2021-05-19 15:06:51
Message-ID: 3431093.1621436811@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On 10.05.21 20:26, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The reason this is there is that the test suite uses PGXS to build the
>> test program, and so things get installed automatically.  I suggest that
>> we should either write out the build system by hand to avoid this, or
>> maybe extend PGXS to support building programs but not installing them.

> Here is a patch that implements the second solution, which turned out to
> be very easy.

+1, except that you should add documentation for NO_INSTALL to the
list of definable symbols at the head of pgxs.mk, and to the list
in extend.sgml (compare that for NO_INSTALLCHECK).

regards, tom lane

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