On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On lör, 2012-02-25 at 14:21 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
>> Well, I'm trying to invoke the extension's "make check" target at
>> extension build time. I do have a temporary installation I own
>> somehwere in my $HOME, but that is still trying to find extensions in
>> /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/extension/*.control, because I am using the
>> system's postgresql version. The build process is not running as root,
>> so I cannot do an install of the extension to its final location.
>> Still it would be nice to run regression tests. All that seems to be
>> missing is the ability to put
>>
>> extension_control_path = /home/buildd/tmp/extension
>>
>> into the postgresql.conf of the temporary PG installation, or some
>> other way like "CREATE EXTENSION foobar WITH CONTROL
>> '/home/buildd/...'.
>
> Yeah, of course, the extension path is not related to the data
> directory. So we do need some kind of path setting, just like
> dynamic_library_path.
That logic seems sound to me, so +1.
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