Re: contrib vs. gborg/pgfoundry for replication solutions

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:29:36AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>I am thinking they could untar into a directory under pgsgl/ or have a
>>way to point to a 'configure'-run source tree and pull values from
>>there.
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>>If you include pg_config.h, or use Makefile.global, you have almost
>>everything you need to compile your own, including flags, configure
>>checks, and the location of the installation directory.
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>That would work only if they compiled the source themselves, as opposed
>to using a binary package (which is very common). I'm not sure if
>installing the postgresql-dev or postgresql-devel package would be
>enough.
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>If not, maybe pg_config could provide all the necessary info ...
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The pieces of the current build environment, used or possibly required
by any contrib module (including scripts like mkldexport.sh and such)
whold have to be installed under $datadir/devel or the like and made
location independent. That's all.

Jan

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