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Re: Potential problem in commit f777d773878 and 4f7f7b03758

Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com> — 2025-08-24T23:46:15Z

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <
srinath2133@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Thanks Dilip and Matheus for working on this , i reviewed the latest patch
> given my Matheus and it LGTM but i have doubt that in f777d773878 commit
> the $libdir was moved out from expand_dynamic_library_name
> into load_external_function because if someone specifies LOAD '$libdir/foo'
> explicitly they want to get the foo.so from $libdir not from other paths
> given in dynamic_library_path ,i think same should go for the case when we
> do "create extension" will try to execute the sql script which will replace
> the MODULE_PATHNAME with module_pathname from .control file lets say which
> is $libdir/foo ,now during the sql functions execution this calls the
> load_external_function where we strip $libdir and we are going to load the
> foo.so from other paths specified in dynamic_library_path, isn't that a
> problem , i think this case is also same as with the LOAD.
>

sorry i missed to mention "stripping of $libdir"  here " but i have a doubt
that in f777d773878 commit the stripping of $libdir was moved out
from expand_dynamic_library_name into load_external_function "

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Thanks,
Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla
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