Re: Include files for SPI are not installed - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Include files for SPI are not installed
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Msg-id 200102070050.TAA24580@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Include files for SPI are not installed  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> I agree with Karel on this --- it's difficult to visualize doing useful
> SPI work without a source tree at hand, and it also seems unlikely that
> SPI authors would get along for long with *only* those header files
> needed to pull in spi.h.  So I think it's pretty pointless to add just
> those header files.
> 
> What would make more sense is for the standard install to install only
> those headers needed for *client side* programming, and then to have
> an optional install target that installs the whole darn src/include
> tree.  (Or in RPM terms, a client-devel RPM and a separate server-devel
> RPM that adds the rest of src/include.)  Anything in between is
> guaranteed to be the wrong set of files.

Agreed.  I hesitate to copy all those *.h files when few people use them.

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