Re: Should contrib modules install .h files?

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

Tom> Maybe this all just works without much thought, but given that
Tom> smart people like Peter E. seem to be unsure of that, I'd sure
Tom> like to see a concrete set of rules that extensions should follow
Tom> for this.

I'll comment on the more substantive stuff later since I just noticed a
few relevant points that I need to investigate. But while investigating,
I found...

Tom> There's also a question of whether we need to change anything in
Tom> contrib/ so that it plays by whatever rules we set. There's an
Tom> expectation that contrib modules should be buildable with PGXS,
Tom> so they need to follow the rules.

... that at least all of the *_plperl transform modules in contrib/ fail
to build with USE_PGXS already (i.e. for as long as they have ever
existed), because they rely on plperl_helpers.h which is never installed
anywhere, and trying to get it via $(top_srcdir) obviously can't work in
PGXS.

Haven't tried the python ones yet.

--
Andrew.