On Tue Aug 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM -03, Dilip Kumar wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla
>> <srinath2133@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > Thanks Dilip and Matheus for working on this , i reviewed the
>> > latest patch given my Matheus and it LGTM but i have doubt that in
>> > f777d773878 commit the $libdir was moved out from
>> > expand_dynamic_library_name into load_external_function because if
>> > someone specifies LOAD '$libdir/foo' explicitly they want to get
>> > the foo.so from $libdir not from other paths given in
>> > dynamic_library_path ,i think same should go for the case when we
>> > do "create extension" will try to execute the sql script which will
>> > replace the MODULE_PATHNAME with module_pathname from .control file
>> > lets say which is $libdir/foo ,now during the sql functions
>> > execution this calls the load_external_function where we strip
>> > $libdir and we are going to load the foo.so from other paths
>> > specified in dynamic_library_path, isn't that a problem , i think
>> > this case is also same as with the LOAD.
>>
>> IMHO the cases like $libdir/foo is not a problem because first we will
>> strip the $libdir and then we will try to find the foo in the
>> 'dynamic_library_path' and the default value of dynamic_library_path
>> is $libdir so everything should work fine. OTOH the case I report has
>> $libdir/xyz/foo, in this case it doesn't search in
>> 'dynamic_library_path' instead try to replace the $libdir macro, but
>> we have already stripped the $libdir so this will not behave
>> correctly, so if we have any extra slash in path we need to retain the
>> $libdir
>
> Please find the revised patch with improved comments and commit messages.
>
Thanks for the improvements! LGTM.
--
Matheus Alcantara
