Re: Extensions User Design - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Extensions User Design
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Msg-id 3F72A2BB-5A21-431A-94FF-48B7FED17D06@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: Extensions User Design  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Jul 23, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Please particularly see this sentence: "But unless someone wants to  
> tackle that I think we should leave schema management entirely  
> alone, and leave it up to the extension author / DBA between them."
>
> I think we are in some danger of massively overdesigning this  
> feature (and of repeating past discussions with little extra  
> content). Please don't keep adding bells and whistles. The best  
> development is almost always incremental. Let's start simple and  
> then add features.

This is what I was trying to get at in my last post in the other  
thread. While throwing some ideas out on how to handle some of these  
issues, where there is no clear agreement on what to do, I think we  
should punt in favor of implementing those parts for which there *is*  
general agreement.

Best,

David


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