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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml | 31 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml index 50924a78f0e..6dc42e4ea1b 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml @@ -427,23 +427,38 @@ </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term><varname>requires</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term> + <term><varname>encoding</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term> <listitem> <para> - A list of names of extensions that this extension depends on, - for example <literal>requires = 'foo, bar'</literal>. Those - extensions must be installed before this one can be installed. + The character set encoding used by the script file(s). This should + be specified if the script files contain any non-ASCII characters. + Otherwise the files will be assumed to be in the database encoding. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term><varname>encoding</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term> + <term><varname>module_pathname</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term> <listitem> <para> - The character set encoding used by the script file(s). This should - be specified if the script files contain any non-ASCII characters. - Otherwise the files will be assumed to be in the database encoding. + The value of this parameter will be substituted for each occurrence + of <literal>MODULE_PATHNAME</> in the script file(s). If it is not + set, no substitution is made. Typically, this is set to + <literal>$libdir/<replaceable>shared_library_name</></literal> and + then <literal>MODULE_PATHNAME</> is used in <command>CREATE + FUNCTION</> commands for C-language functions, so that the script + files do not need to hard-wire the name of the shared library. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>requires</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term> + <listitem> + <para> + A list of names of extensions that this extension depends on, + for example <literal>requires = 'foo, bar'</literal>. Those + extensions must be installed before this one can be installed. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |