Re: Another swing at JSON

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

Cc: Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-03-30T13:27:39Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Excerpts from Dimitri Fontaine's message of mié mar 30 05:27:07 -0300 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Why are you worrying with the non-PGXS build chain anyway?  Just assume
> > that the module is going to be built with PGXS and things should just
> > work.
> >
> > We've gone over this a dozen times in the past.
> 
> +1
> 
> I'm not sure why we still support the pre-PGXS build recipe in the
> contrib Makefiles, and didn't want to change that as part as the
> extension patch series, but I think we should reconsider.

This is in the archives somewhere.  I think it's something to do with
the fact that "make check" doesn't work under PGXS; you have to use
"make installcheck".  Or maybe it was something else.  I don't really
remember the details.  I also pushed for this, a long time ago.

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