Re: [HACKERS] Configurable location for extension .control files

2013-06-04 Thread Oliver Charles
On 06/04/2013 09:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote: It presumably wouldn't be terribly hard for Oliver to patch the sources to look in something other than SHAREDIR/extension/, but I'm not sure I see the point of inventing a platform-specific name for that directory; seems like it would mostly just confuse u

Re: [HACKERS] Configurable location for extension .control files

2013-06-04 Thread Oliver Charles
On 06/04/2013 06:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote: What wolud work best for us is to allow this path to be configurable, ideally through either an environment variable, command line switch, or (and this is the least desirable) a postgresql.conf option. Basically, none of those are likely to get accepted be

[HACKERS] Configurable location for extension .control files

2013-06-04 Thread Oliver Charles
Hello, I am working with the NixOS Linux Distribution [nixos], which has a fairly radical approach to package management. If you aren't familiar with it, essentially all packages are installed in isolation - such that packages cannot interfere with each other. This is causing a bit of a prob