Re: RFC: Additional Directory for Extensions

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Additional Directory for Extensions
Date: 2024-06-25 09:18:25
Message-ID: ZnqLYcAYTv3fKBmU@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Nathan Bossart
> At first glance, the general idea seems reasonable to me. I'm wondering
> whether there is a requirement for this directory to be prepended or if it
> could be appended to the end. That way, the existing ones would take
> priority, which might be desirable from a security standpoint.

My use case for this is to test things at compile time (where I can't
write to /usr/share/postgresql/). If installed things would take
priority over the things that I'm trying to test, I'd be disappointed.

Christoph

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