Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> Please find attached another new version of a patch which provides a
>> working infrastructure for pg extensions.
> This patch breaks building outside the source tree in a very elaborate
> and obvious way. Unfortunately, this is all tied together so I haven't
> figured out yet if it can be fixed easily.
Peter, do you have time before the end of the month to sort this out?
It would be nice to have a real solution in this area, because certainly
we have some problems here.
> I think by now I'm looking for a patch that does not
> touch contrib at all (except perhaps contrib-global.mk).
I would think that we'd want to make the contrib tree use whatever
solution is developed for building outside the main source tree, simply
because that's a handy test case for verifying that it's not broken.
I won't commit hara-kiri if this is not solved for 7.5, but it is an
open issue, especially for RPM and similar package installations.
If Fabien's work is at all close to a usable solution, it'd be a shame
not to get it done in this release cycle.
regards, tom lane