Re: Configurable location for extension .control files

On 2013-06-04 16:24:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I don't really care much about Oliver's usecase TBH, but I would very much
> > welcome making it easier for application developers to package part of
> > ther in-database application code as extensions without either requiring
> > a selfcompiled postgres with a custom extension dir or them having have
> > root access to the machine running postgres.
> 
> Well, if you're installing an extension that includes C code, you're
> going to need root access anyway to install the shlib (at least on
> conservatively-configured machines).  For pure-SQL extensions, Dimitri's
> been pushing a different approach that needn't involve the filesystem at
> all.  We didn't get that finished in 9.3 but I think it's still on the
> agenda for 9.4.

Yea, I know of Dimitri's work ;). But I really would like this to work
for C extensions as well. For me personally its no problem at all that
this wouldn't work on conservatively configured machines. Heck, I
*don't* want it to work on production machines. But being able to
configure a dev machine to allow it would be very helpful.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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