Re: Dumping an Extension's Script - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Dumping an Extension's Script
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Msg-id 20121205204356.GF4673@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Dumping an Extension's Script  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Andres Freund escribió:
> On 2012-12-05 21:16:52 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

> > Now if we can't fix the executable files situation, what about making
> > the C coded extensions not require an executable anymore? I'm thinking
> > about studying what it would take exactly to write a PL/C where the
> > PostgreSQL backend would basically compile the embedded C code at CREATE
> > FUNCTION time and store bytecode or binary in the probin column.

> Imo thats not a sensible thing to pursue.

+1.  Certainly a pg_dump patch's thread is not the place to propose it.

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