Excerpts from Dimitri Fontaine's message of mié mar 30 05:27:07 -0300 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Why are you worrying with the non-PGXS build chain anyway? Just assume
> > that the module is going to be built with PGXS and things should just
> > work.
> >
> > We've gone over this a dozen times in the past.
>
> +1
>
> I'm not sure why we still support the pre-PGXS build recipe in the
> contrib Makefiles, and didn't want to change that as part as the
> extension patch series, but I think we should reconsider.
This is in the archives somewhere. I think it's something to do with
the fact that "make check" doesn't work under PGXS; you have to use
"make installcheck". Or maybe it was something else. I don't really
remember the details. I also pushed for this, a long time ago.
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