Re: PostgreSQL 9.3 beta breaks some extensions "make install"

On 05/13/2013 10:27 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 04:12 +0300, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
>> It's caused by this common pattern in extension makefiles:
>> DATA = $(wildcard sql/*--*.sql) sql/$(EXTENSION)--$(EXTVERSION).sql
>>
> What is the point of this?  Why have the wildcard and then the
> non-wildcard term?
>
> I think using wildcard is bad style and you should fix it.
>

I've been caught by it. I'm not sure why the wildcard is a bad idea - 
don't we want any present update sql files to be installed? . I don't 
see any reason to have the redundant addition of the current version's 
sql file, though.

cheers

andrew