On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:05:27AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > Do we expect there might be more like this? We could easily add a rule
> > to Install.pm to know about DICTFILES rules in addition to DATA
> > rules..
>
> Yeah, after sleeping on it I think we need a general-purpose solution.
> There are likely to be more not fewer tsearch-related contrib modules
> in future; and even if you don't believe that, people will certainly
> want to use the PGXS infrastructure to build add-on dictionaries.
> So we should provide a DATA-like macro to specify installing stuff
> into $SHAREDIR/tsearch_data/, instead of making everyone reinvent the
> hack that's currently in dict_xsyn/Makefile.
>
> I was going to propose calling it DATA_TSEARCH, but DICTFILES would
> work too. Any preferences?
DATA_TSEARCH seems better, it indicates where the files are going even
clearer.
//Magnus
