Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling

On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> OK, so with that, attached is an example of the complete conversion diff
> for a contrib module (hstore in particular).  Although "git status"
> reports hstore--1.0.sql as being a rename of hstore.sql.in, "git diff"
> doesn't seem to be exceedingly bright about presenting it that way :-(.
> But actually the change in that script other than renaming is just
> removing the "set search_path" command and adjusting the header comment.

I sure would like it if the install script with no version in it corresponded to the latest version. Otherwise, one must rename the file every time one does a release. And as you're noting, you lose Git history that way.

Best,

David