On Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 10:06 AM CST, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Here's more or less what I had in mind.
>
> Do we really need the dependency on an install tree?
> Can't we just find the executables (or .o files for Darwin)
> in the build tree? Seems like that would simplify usage,
> and reduce the possibility for version-skew errors.
Seems like you would be forcing an extension author to keep a Postgres
source tree around if you went this route. Perhaps supporting either the
build tree or an install tree would get you the best of both worlds.
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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)