Re: RFC: Extension Packaging & Lookup

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

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

To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Cc: Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Date: 2024-11-25T21:45:59Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Nov 13, 2024, at 16:38, David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com> wrote:

> I came to this thinking that it was important to keep core (contrib, PL) extensions separate from non-core extensions, and if so, it’d be useful to have other defaults so that `make install` would go to the right one (site by default).
> 
> But maybe it’s not necessary? If there are no extensions by default, perhaps it doesn’t matter?

I ripped out the core/vendor/site stuff and have now published a fairly detailed RFC.

  https://justatheory.com/2024/11/rfc-extension-packaging-lookup/

What do you think, Hacker Friends?

Best,

David