Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Consistency here is pointless. IIRC the dual method is used in contrib
> > because people did not trust the PGXS stuff enough to rip the original
> > Make code out; or maybe because people did not want PGXS to become the
> > default build method, but they allowed it to be used in contrib as a
> > test bed that PGXS worked.
>
> The main reason contrib still has the alternate method is that PGXS
> doesn't really work until after you've installed the core build.
> For modules distributed separately from core, it doesn't seem that
> exciting to be able to build using the contrib method.
>
> Now, having said that, I'm personally interested in being able to build
> pg_migrator against an uninstalled source tree, because I foresee
> needing to do that for RPM packaging purposes. But I could easily patch
> the makefiles if needed to make that happen. I don't think this case
> should drive the choice of what's the default or common method.
Well, PGXS is now the recommended install method in the pg_migrator
INSTALL file. What other changes should I make?
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