On 05/15/2013 10:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> That said, I'm obviously outnumbered here. What about the following
>> compromise: Use the configure-selected install program inside
>> PostgreSQL (which we can test easily), and use install-sh under
>> USE_PGXS? Admittedly, the make install time of extensions is probably
>> not an issue.
> That works for me, since as you say we can easily fix any such bugs
> in the core code. The scary thing about this for extension authors
> is that they may very well see no bug in their own testing, only to
> have their packages fall over in the wild. We shouldn't make each
> author who's copied that code rediscover the problem for themselves
> that expensively.
+1, although I will be renovating the Makefiles for all my extensions
along the lines of my previous email.
cheers
andrew