Joe Conway wrote:

> On 06/15/2013 11:28 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > This use case seems too narrow to me to justify the burden of
> > keeping PGXS-enabled makefiles in contrib.
> 
> What was the burden of it?

Per 
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1371093408.309.5.ca...@vanquo.pezone.net :

: 1. take up space
: 2. confuse users
: 3. produce broken external extension modules that take contrib as an example
: 4. break builds of PostgreSQL when users try to fix 3. by exporting USE_PGXS

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