Re: moving from contrib to bin

Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-03-10 22:06:37 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I don't think we care one bit whether these modules use pgxs, at least
> > not currently.  If we find any issues later on, it should be an easy fix
> > anyway.
> 
> I personally find it quite ugly to use pgxs for stuff in
> src/bin. pgxs.mk says:
> # This file contains generic rules to build many kinds of simple
> # extension modules.  You only need to set a few variables and include
> # this file, the rest will be done here.

I think if you s/extension// in the above paragraph, it makes complete
sense to use it for the new src/bin modules.

> I don't object at all to introducing more generic rules for src/bin, but
> that seems like a separate task. And one that should be done right not
> just use some convenient hack. And you can't tell me that
> +NO_PGXS = 1
> +include $(top_srcdir)/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
> isn't a hack...

Why not?  It's the standard procedure for building modules outside the
contrib/ source tree.

I'm okay with reformulating the makefiles after the move, so that these
modules are built in our standard, simpler makefile conventions.  Let's
do that in a followup commit -- then each change is simpler.  It's hard
enough with all the ugly MSVC stuff.

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