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 18004.1237758380@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  (Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>)
Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> Le 22 mars 09 � 22:05, Tom Lane a �crit :
>> This seems drastically overengineered.  What do we need two levels of
>> objects for?

> We need to be able to refer (pg_depend) to (system level) modules.
> Any given extension may depend on more than one module.

You really haven't convinced me that this is anything but
overcomplication.  There might (or might not) be some use-case
for being able to declare that module A depends on module B,
but that doesn't mean we need a second layer of grouping.
        regards, tom lane


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