Re: Finer Extension dependencies - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Finer Extension dependencies
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Msg-id 4F7408C902000025000468C3@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to Finer Extension dependencies  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
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Robert Haas  wrote:
> I think that technically this patch can be polished well enough to
> commit in the time we have available, but the question of whether
> it's the right design is harder, and I don't want that to be my
> call alone.
I gather from previous posts that the intent isn't to allow different
packages from different authors to provide a common and compatible
feature; but what happens in the current design if someone
accidentally or maliciously produces an extension which provides the
same feature name as another extension?
Would we need some registry?
-Kevin


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