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| author | Peter Eisentraut | 2025-03-19 05:57:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Eisentraut | 2025-03-19 06:03:20 +0000 |
| commit | 4f7f7b0375854e2f89876473405a8f21c95012af (patch) | |
| tree | c413b2bd115ee78c960607db7986e206ddae96f1 /src/include/commands | |
| parent | 2cce0fe440fb3f252a7be70a89298168009a2c15 (diff) | |
extension_control_path
The new GUC extension_control_path specifies a path to look for
extension control files. The default value is $system, which looks in
the compiled-in location, as before.
The path search uses the same code and works in the same way as
dynamic_library_path.
Some use cases of this are: (1) testing extensions during package
builds, (2) installing extensions outside security-restricted
containers like Python.app (on macOS), (3) adding extensions to
PostgreSQL running in a Kubernetes environment using operators such as
CloudNativePG without having to rebuild the base image for each new
extension.
There is also a tweak in Makefile.global so that it is possible to
install extensions using PGXS into an different directory than the
default, using 'make install prefix=/else/where'. This previously
only worked when specifying the subdirectories, like 'make install
datadir=/else/where/share pkglibdir=/else/where/lib', for purely
implementation reasons. (Of course, without the path feature,
installing elsewhere was rarely useful.)
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Co-authored-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Niccolò Fei <niccolo.fei@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E7C7BFFB-8857-48D4-A71F-88B359FADCFD@justatheory.com
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/commands')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/include/commands/extension.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/commands/extension.h b/src/include/commands/extension.h index 0b636405120..24419bfb5c9 100644 --- a/src/include/commands/extension.h +++ b/src/include/commands/extension.h @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ #include "catalog/objectaddress.h" #include "parser/parse_node.h" +/* GUC */ +extern PGDLLIMPORT char *Extension_control_path; /* * creating_extension is only true while running a CREATE EXTENSION or ALTER |