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

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows
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Msg-id 474AFCAE.2090900@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
>> I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of
>> projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but
> 
> The share directory is the wrong place for configuration files anyway.  And 
> moreover, non-PostgreSQL packages have no business putting files into 
> PostgreSQL's private directories.
> 

How does that work with the stuff that goes into directories relative to
$libdir (per documented recommendations), without creating easy-to-break
paths like $libdir/../../MyAddon/8.3/MyAddon.dll?

Regards, Dave


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