Re: regress bug

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>

To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2012-03-08T21:49:23Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>> So perhaps DATA_built is to be removed from pgxs.mk? And if so, is the idea then that one should just put the module name in the .sql file, rather than MODULE_PATHNAME in a .sql.in file?
> 
> Extensions (unlike non-extension modules) should not monkey with MODULE_PATHNAME at all.
> 
> Change the Makefile def from DATA_built to DATA and rename the file to exttest.sql

I did (and I do). But this is not documented or recommended anywhere. Something should be promulgated to encourage existing authors to do that.

David