Re: PGXS: REGRESS_OPTS=--load-language=plpgsql

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>

To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-02-20T23:55:47Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Feb 20, 2010, at 15:18, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

> I also think we need to state explicitly that module authors can not  
> expect build files to be version ignorant and always work. Even if  
> we do something that handles this particular issue, that is likely  
> to be a happy coincidence rather than something that can be expected  
> all the time. People need to expect to have to do version-dependent  
> things.

Sure, but where it cab easily be avoided it should be. Most Makefiles  
work as-is back to 8.0 and earlier AFAICT.

Best,

David