[GENERAL] Testing an extension without installing it

2013-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
Is it possible to test an C extension module (.so file) without installing a SHAREDIR/extension/extension_name.control file? My test suite already runs initdb and the database as a non-postgres user, but I don't see a way to override the extension control file location. -- Florian Weimer /

Re: [GENERAL] Testing an extension without installing it

2013-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Florian Weimer fwei...@redhat.com writes: Is it possible to test an C extension module (.so file) without installing a SHAREDIR/extension/extension_name.control file? Well, you could just ignore the extension mechanism: do some manual CREATE FUNCTION commands and test the functionality through