Re: Extensions User Design - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Extensions User Design
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Msg-id 10804.1246458666@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Extensions User Design  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> You should be able to configure the dynamic loader to do that, although
>> in the case of uuid I strongly doubt it's worth the trouble.

> In the context of the extensions facility, will we be able to do this
> configuration automatically from the backend, or to "manually" load any
> dependant .so?

I have zero interest in trying to support either.  I doubt it's even
possible --- the backend code has no way to inform the dynamic loader
how to resolve cross-library references.  So if the DL doesn't already
understand the dependency it's never going to work.
        regards, tom lane


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