A followup question on this...
What about user create functions (i.e. create function...as '<path>')
can the path have $libdir/ on it as well?
Thanks,
L.
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Laurette Cisneros <laurette@nextbus.com> writes:
> > I am currently on 7.2.1 and the software location has changed (to
> > /usr/local/pgsql). And, further research shows that the pg_proc shows:
> > This shows /usr/local/pgsql-7.2/lib/plpgsql for the "probin" column.
>
> > How should an update of software be handled as per pg_proc?
>
> The preferred contents of probin are now like
> $libdir/plpgsql
> (the dollar sign is literal text here). As of 7.2 the server will
> substitute a suitable directory name for "$libdir". You probably
> have a database that was reloaded from an old dump without taking
> advantage of this feature --- before 7.2 you could only use an
> absolute path in probin. Now, absolute paths are deprecated for exactly
> the reason that they make version updates hard.
>
> Note the lack of a ".so" in that probin entry, too. This is also
> a recommended new practice in 7.2 --- no reason to put
> platform-dependent assumptions about shared library extensions into
> your dumps.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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