Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling
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Msg-id 26248.1297552363@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Responses Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I did think of another idea besides forbidding dash in extension names:
>> what if we use double dash as the name/version separator,

> +1 You might even consider mandating a double-dash between versions, so that they could have dashes:
>         extension--oldversion--newversion.sql

Hm.  I think we'd still have to disallow dash as the first or last
character in a version name to make that unambiguous.  Not sure it's
worth the trouble.
        regards, tom lane


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