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

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib
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Msg-id 56B8C0FF-322F-4E3E-BD77-2234CB92C1F7@justatheory.com
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In response to [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Jun 12, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> 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
>
> There is adequate material in the documentation and elsewhere (PGXN) on
> how to write extensions and their makefiles, so this is not needed.

+1 Nice.

David




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