Re: creating extension including dependencies - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: creating extension including dependencies
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Msg-id 50BD08AE-F319-4C33-9CEE-93DDB3A72865@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: creating extension including dependencies  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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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
methat `CREATE EXTENSION foo` would install bar if it was available, and complain if it wasn’t. 

Best,

David


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