Re: Runtime SHAREDIR for testing CREATE EXTENSION

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:34:42PM +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net> writes:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:21:17AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net> writes:
> >> > I'm trying to understand what options I have to test "CREATE EXTENSION"
> >> > w/out installing the extension files in their final destination.
> >> 
> >> There aren't any.  Generally speaking, if you want to be testing an
> >> extension, you should be doing it in a test installation anyway;
> >> so I don't see what's the objection to sticking the files into the
> >> installation's real SHAREDIR.
> >
> > We do a staged installation of the extension library and scripts
> > in an ad-hoc dir which does not match the built-in SHAREDIR of PostgreSQL.
> >
> > It works fine for testing the extension directly sourcing the scripts.
> > It's only "CREATE EXTENSION" that doesn't play nicely with that setup.
> 
> Please see the "inline extension" thread where answers to your problem
> have been discussed.
> 
>   https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=746

I'm not really looking for "inline extensions".
I do want to install the extension objects somewhere, just NOT
in the PostgreSQL builtin SHAREDIR but in an arbitrary staging
directory to use for QA the extension before distribution.

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