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Re: [PATCH] random_normal function

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com> — 2025-10-19T18:58:36Z

On Oct 6, 2025, at 06:30, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:

> IMO, the main docs would benefit greatly from the addition of
> PG_ABS_BUILDDIR, PG_ABS_BUILDDIR, PG_LIBDIR and PG_DLSUFFIX, which are
> still missing.  These are available to extension developers through
> installcheck, and are a great way to write more flexible tests with
> arbitrary inputs, like a dependency to on-disk files.  I would
> certainly +1 this addition, at least.

I’ve never heard of these! Seems like there’s an awful lot of stuff in the testing infrastructure that would be useful to document.

D