Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows
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Msg-id 200711270830.50118.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I think he said too, but it strikes me as a completely
> bogus policy --- what about contrib modules or stuff from pgfoundry
> or any random user-written module that was built with PGXS?  All that
> stuff happily drops files under $libdir and $sharedir, and I see no good
> argument why it shouldn't.

We have an implicit policy for those two specific cases, which are OK with me.  
I guess it's better to look at specific use cases instead of interpreting 
other people's abstract directory descriptions. ;-)

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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