Re: *.sql contrib files contain unresolvable MODULE_PATHNAME

On 10/12/2011 09:53 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In https://launchpad.net/bugs/835502 it was reported that the 9.1.1
> contrib *.sql files contain the token "MODULE_PATHNAME", which is
> unknown:
>
>   psql test < /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/extension/intarray--1.0.sql
>
> This fails with a ton of errors about the file "MODULE_PATHNAME" not
> existing.
>
> When I replace this with "$libdir/_int", it works:
>
>   sed 's!MODULE_PATHNAME!$libdir/_int!g' /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/extension/intarray--1.0.sql | psql test
>
> Is that something I'm doing wrong in the packaging, or should the
> contrib Makefiles be fixed to do this substitution?
>
> It doesn't only affect intarray, but pretty much all *.sql files.

uh - the reason is that contrib is now packaged as extensions and that
you are supposed to use "CREATE EXTENSION intarray;" on the SQL level
instead of manually loading sql-scripts through psql.


Stefan