Re: why two dashes in extension load files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: why two dashes in extension load files
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Msg-id 542EEE28-2C0E-4663-A991-6246EC5DA70F@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: why two dashes in extension load files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: why two dashes in extension load files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> I'm not convinced.  There was nothing in that discussion why any
>> particular character would have to be allowed in a version number.
> 
> Well, there's already a counterexample in the current contrib stuff:
> uuid-ossp.  We could rename that to uuid_ossp of course, but it's
> not clear to me that there's consensus for forbidding dashes here.

I'd be fine if commas were used instead.

Best,

David


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