Re: Extension Templates S03E11

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * David E. Wheeler (david@justatheory.com) wrote:
>> This is true today, but only because PostgreSQL provides the
>> infrastructure for building and installing extensions that entails `make
>> && make install`. If Postgres provided some other method of building and
>> installing extensions, you could start using it right away on PGXN. The
>> *only* requirement for PGXN distributions, really, is a META.json file
>> describing the extension.
>
> Thanks, that's a pretty interesting point..  I like the idea that we
> could provide a new make target which could build an 'inline extension'
> (or what-have-you) which could then be distributed and used by users
> either directly or with some client-side tool.

+1

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