Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.
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Msg-id 19402.1154953854@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com>)
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"Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com> writes:
>> Are you saying that the package would effectively *be* a schema from the 
>> outside. That is, if I have package "foo" then I can't also have a schema 
>> "foo"?

> Yes, because I don't need duplicity in function's names.

What if the package needs some tables associated with it?  I think you
need to think harder about the relationship of packages and schemas.
I don't necessarily object to merging the concepts like this, but
the implications look a bit messy at first sight.
        regards, tom lane


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