On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:14:49AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2015, at 6:41 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> > At the minimum I'd like to see that CREATE EXTENSION foo; would
> > install install extension 'bar' if foo dependended on 'bar' if
> > CASCADE is specified. Right now we always error out saying that
> > the dependency on 'bar' is not fullfilled - not particularly
> > helpful.
>
> +1
>
> If `yum install foo` also installs bar, and `pgxn install foo`
> downloads, builds, and installs bar, it makes sense to me that
> `CREATE EXTENSION foo` would install bar if it was available, and
> complain if it wasn’t.
This is this baseline sane behavior. Getting the full dependency
tree, although it would be very handy, would require more
infrastructure than we have now.
Cheers,
David.
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