Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of mié mar 30 10:27:39 -0300 2011:
> Excerpts from Dimitri Fontaine's message of mié mar 30 05:27:07 -0300 2011:
> > I'm not sure why we still support the pre-PGXS build recipe in the
> > contrib Makefiles, and didn't want to change that as part as the
> > extension patch series, but I think we should reconsider.
>
> This is in the archives somewhere. I think it's something to do with
> the fact that "make check" doesn't work under PGXS; you have to use
> "make installcheck". Or maybe it was something else. I don't really
> remember the details. I also pushed for this, a long time ago.
In http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg00245.php
Tom writes:
> The main reason contrib still has the alternate method is that PGXS
> doesn't really work until after you've installed the core build.
Maybe we could have a look and try to fix that problem.
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