Re: pg_config/share_dir - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: pg_config/share_dir
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Msg-id 43207D1E.10606@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: pg_config/share_dir  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: pg_config/share_dir
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
>  
>
>>We don't need access to that file, but install some sql files into
>>the share dir,  the test for postgresql.conf.sample is there just to
>>see if the dir looks like a likely candidate to be the dir we are
>>infact after..
>>    
>>
>
>Then my response is that Slony has absolutely no business installing its 
>files into one of PostgreSQL's private directories.
>  
>

Why be so prescriptive? pgxs already exposes <share_dir>/contrib as an 
install target via DATA and DATA_built. Arguably, other modules would be 
playing nicer if they put their private stuff in some other private 
<share_dir>/subdirectory rather than under contrib.

cheers

andrew


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