| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_config/share_dir |
| Date: | 2005-09-08 18:04:14 |
| Message-ID: | 43207D1E.10606@dunslane.net |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
>
>
>>We don't need access to that file, but install some sql files into
>>the share dir, the test for postgresql.conf.sample is there just to
>>see if the dir looks like a likely candidate to be the dir we are
>>infact after..
>>
>>
>
>Then my response is that Slony has absolutely no business installing its
>files into one of PostgreSQL's private directories.
>
>
Why be so prescriptive? pgxs already exposes <share_dir>/contrib as an
install target via DATA and DATA_built. Arguably, other modules would be
playing nicer if they put their private stuff in some other private
<share_dir>/subdirectory rather than under contrib.
cheers
andrew
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