Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I think he said too, but it strikes me as a completely
> bogus policy --- what about contrib modules or stuff from pgfoundry
> or any random user-written module that was built with PGXS? All that
> stuff happily drops files under $libdir and $sharedir, and I see
Mark Cave-Ayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Okay, I'll try and expand on this a bit. In order to convert coordinates
> between different coordinate systems, PostGIS uses the external PROJ.4
> library. Now in order to support a certain category of conversion,
> PROJ.4 requires access to a set of
> --- Original Message ---
> From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 26/11/07, 22:30:17
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows
>
> "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTEC
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 17:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I believe that that is talking specifically about shared libraries (or
> DLLs in Windows-speak), and not about configuration or data files.
> In particular, nothing under libdir would be a candidate to go under
> sharedir, nor vice versa, since
"Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, I know. Peter seemed to be saying that nothing except postgres
> itself should be in *any* of the installation directories
Yeah, that's what I think he said too, but it strikes me as a completely
bogus policy --- what about contrib modules or stuff fr
> --- Original Message ---
> From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 26/11/07, 22:02:09
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows
>
>
> I believe that that is talking spe
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not sure why Mark's having a problem accessing my_exec_path ---
> it *is* declared DLLIMPORT in miscadmin.h (which is where it counts,
> AIUI) clear back to 8.0.
Bah, I think that is the source of the problem. Having grepped the
source for
"Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Which documented recommendation do you speak of?
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/xfunc-c.html states:
> It is recommended to locate shared libraries either relative to $libdir or
> through the dyna
> --- Original Message ---
> From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 26/11/07, 20:14:25
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Locating sharedir in PostgreSQL on Windows
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > How does
Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
> >> I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of
> >> projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but
> >
> > The share directory
Dave Page wrote:
> How does that work with the stuff that goes into directories relative to
> $libdir (per documented recommendations), without creating easy-to-break
> paths like $libdir/../../MyAddon/8.3/MyAddon.dll?
Which documented recommendation do you speak of?
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Peter Eisentraut
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
>> I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of
>> projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but
>
> The share directory is the wrong place for configuration files anywa
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
>> I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of
>> projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but
> The share directory is the wrong place for config
Am Montag, 26. November 2007 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
> I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of
> projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but
The share directory is the wrong place for configuration files anyway. And
moreover, non-PostgreSQ
Hi everyone,
I'm working on a piece of code for PostGIS to allow the loading of
projection configuration files from the share/postgresql directory, but
I can't find a way of getting this to work under Win32.
AIUI the way to do this would be to use a combination of my_exec_path
and get_share_path
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