Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 06/13/2013 11:16 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > This has served no purpose except to
> >
> > 1. take up space
> > 2. confuse users
> > 3. produce broken external extension modules that take contrib as an example
> > 4. break builds of PostgreSQL when users try to fix 3. by exporting USE_PGXS
> 
> Weak -1 from me; I find being able to build contrib modules using PGXS
> from the source tree extremely useful in development. It allows me to
> easily install an extension from a newer Pg version into an older
> server, test against older servers, etc.

This use case seems too narrow to me to justify the burden of keeping
PGXS-enabled makefiles in contrib.

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