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Re: Show HN: Pglayers – PostgreSQL extensions as stackable Docker layers

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Are you aware of extension_control_path? [0] Since PG18 it allows specifying multiple non-$system directories for extension control paths, which makes it easier to adopt composable patterns of extension bundling with immutable images. CloudNativePG uses this for its Image Volume Extensions feature [1]. A lot of the CNPG team worked on contributing this to PG core because previously the only alternative was baking “Go…

@chatmasta Thanks again for the pointer. I just added the implementation now for the images based on PG 18+ I really like the idea of adding your layers at deploy time so this is a nice improvement.
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