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Re: RFC: Additional Directory for Extensions

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
To: walther@technowledgy.de
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-03T12:54:31Z
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On Apr 3, 2024, at 3:57 AM, walther@technowledgy.de wrote:

> I can also imagine that it would be very helpful in a container setup to be able to set an environment variable with this path instead of having to recompile all of postgres to change it.

Yes, I like the suggestion to make it require a restart, which lets the sysadmin control it and not limited to whatever the person who compiled it thought would make sense.

Best,

David

Commits

  1. doc: Flesh out extension docs for the "prefix" make variable

  2. Fix extension control path tests

  3. extension_control_path