Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"
Date: 2013-05-14 12:00:56
Message-ID: 51922778.4050107@gmx.net
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On 5/14/13 7:50 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> writes:
>> > all: sql/$(EXTENSION)--$(EXTVERSION).sql
>> >
>> > sql/$(EXTENSION)--$(EXTVERSION).sql: sql/$(EXTENSION).sql
>> > cp $< $@
> That's a recipe for problems. Each time I meet with such a construct in
> an extension's Makefile I propose an hard coded alternative. We're
> speaking of maintaining less than half a dozen file names here, with one
> or two additions per year, in most cases.

I don't think this in particular is a problem. I use something like
that myself. But you should list all the older extension upgrade files
explicitly (to which your point applies).

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