Creating languages with relative path to shared libraries

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#1Oberpriller, Wade D.
oberpwd@nsc-msg01.network.com

When I do a

createlang -L $MYDIR plpgsql template1

It appears that MYDIR must be an absolute path to a directory containing
plpgsql.so. I am wondering if there is any way to make it work with a
relative path (like ../lib). I am trying to build a database on a
development machine and then copy it on to a production machine. The paths
where it is built are differenct than where it will reside and I am running
into dynamic linking issues. Any ideas?

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Oberpriller, Wade D. (#1)
Re: Creating languages with relative path to shared libraries

"Oberpriller, Wade D." <oberpwd@nsc-msg01.network.com> writes:

When I do a
createlang -L $MYDIR plpgsql template1
It appears that MYDIR must be an absolute path to a directory containing
plpgsql.so. I am wondering if there is any way to make it work with a
relative path (like ../lib). I am trying to build a database on a
development machine and then copy it on to a production machine. The paths
where it is built are differenct than where it will reside and I am running
into dynamic linking issues. Any ideas?

FWIW, this is solved in 7.2 by building a search path into the backend
itself. createlang now enters the shlib path as just
$libdir/plpgsql
so that the function definition isn't dependent on installation path.

May not help you much today though :-(

regards, tom lane