[postgis-users] About $libdir

[Paul Ramsey]

The reason there are references to $libdir in the postgis.sql file is 
because the PgSQL developers told me that this was the way to get 
path-independant references to the PgSQL extension directories.  I was 
hoping that a combination of $libdir and future generic library naming 
would allow simple pg_dump | psql migrations between different server 
instances.

It seems like some people are having no end of troubles with $libdir 
which others are doing just fine.  Ironically, we had less comments and 
problems when we just had the full paths references in the postgis.sql 
file.

      Paul Ramsey
      Refractions Research
      Email: pramsey at refractions.net
      Phone: (250) 885-0632