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Re: RFC: Additional Directory for Extensions

Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-08-22T08:59:47Z
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Hi Jelte,

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 at 09:32, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:

> It looks like you want one directory per extension, so that list would
> get pretty long if you have multiple extensions. Maybe (as a follow up
> change), we should start to support a * as a wildcard in both of these
> GUCs. So you could say:
>
> SET extension_search_path = /mnt/extensions/pg16/*
>
> To mean effectively the same as you're describing above.
>

That'd be great. +1.

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Gabriele Bartolini
Vice President, Cloud Native at EDB
enterprisedb.com

Commits

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

  2. Fix extension control path tests

  3. extension_control_path