Thread: pgsql-server: PostgreSQL extension makefile framework ("pgxs"), by

Log Message:
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PostgreSQL extension makefile framework ("pgxs"), by Fabien Coelho, with
some massaging by Peter Eisentraut.  This is basically a simple
generalization of the existing contrib makefiles.

Modified Files:
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    pgsql-server:
        GNUmakefile.in (r1.39 -> r1.40)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/GNUmakefile.in.diff?r1=1.39&r2=1.40)
    pgsql-server/contrib:
        contrib-global.mk (r1.7 -> r1.8)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/contrib/contrib-global.mk.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8)
    pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml:
        xfunc.sgml (r1.84 -> r1.85)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/xfunc.sgml.diff?r1=1.84&r2=1.85)
    pgsql-server/src:
        Makefile (r1.32 -> r1.33)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/Makefile.diff?r1=1.32&r2=1.33)
        Makefile.global.in (r1.189 -> r1.190)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/Makefile.global.in.diff?r1=1.189&r2=1.190)
    pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_config:
        Makefile (r1.6 -> r1.7)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_config/Makefile.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7)
        pg_config.sh (r1.9 -> r1.10)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_config/pg_config.sh.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.10)
    pgsql-server/src/utils:
        Makefile (r1.20 -> r1.21)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/utils/Makefile.diff?r1=1.20&r2=1.21)

Added Files:
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    pgsql-server/config:
        Makefile (r1.1)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/config/Makefile?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)
    pgsql-server/src/makefiles:
        Makefile (r1.1)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/makefiles/Makefile?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)
        pgxs.mk (r1.1)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)

Dear Peter,

> PostgreSQL extension makefile framework ("pgxs"), by Fabien Coelho, with
> some massaging by Peter Eisentraut.  This is basically a simple
> generalization of the existing contrib makefiles.

Thanks for your help.

I'm having a look at CVS know, and it seems to me that one cannot pgxs
"dynamic" stuff to install any contrib, because:

(1) all makefiles in contrib include directly "src/Makefile.global" which
    is generated by configure, although it is already included by the
    "src/makefiles/pgxs.mk" makefile anyway, so it seems to me that it
    is useless because redundant?

(2) only static includes are used, so I cannot use "pg_config --pgxs"
    approach to install a contrib against an already compiled postgresql?
    basically, you drop the USE_PGXS stuff for dynamic configuration
    of contrib makefiles, and I have found no replacement.

That does annoy me a little bit not to be able to use it, as it was one of
my motivations for doing all that stuff...

May I enquire on the rational for the current status?
Would it be possible to have both worlds?
If not, what is the actual issue?
What was broken with version 4 I sent?
Or am I missing something somewhere? I'm pretty jetlagged this afternoon...:-(

Thanks in advance,

--
Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr