Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues
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Msg-id 17539.1237755901@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
Responses Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues
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Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> He also worked out some OS level tools for module handling, but I  
> think I'd prefer to have another notion in between, the extension.

> The extension would be a new SQL object referring to zero, one or more  
> modules and one or more SQL scripts creating new SQL objects (schemas,  
> tables, views, tablespaces, functions, types, casts, operator classes  
> and families, etc, whatever SQL scripting we support now --- yes,  
> index am would be great too).

This seems drastically overengineered.  What do we need two levels of
objects for?
        regards, tom lane


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