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Re: RFC: Additional Directory for Extensions

Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, walther@technowledgy.de, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2024-06-25T09:18:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Re: Nathan Bossart
> At first glance, the general idea seems reasonable to me.  I'm wondering
> whether there is a requirement for this directory to be prepended or if it
> could be appended to the end.  That way, the existing ones would take
> priority, which might be desirable from a security standpoint.

My use case for this is to test things at compile time (where I can't
write to /usr/share/postgresql/). If installed things would take
priority over the things that I'm trying to test, I'd be disappointed.

Christoph

Commits

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

  2. Fix extension control path tests

  3. extension_control_path