Re: Add Postgres module info - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 08:34:28PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What would you foresee as the SQL API for inspecting a module that's
>> not tied to an extension?

> Rather than a function that can be called with a specific module name
> in input, invent a new system SRF function that would report back for
> a process all the libraries that have been loaded in it?

Yeah, that could work.

> Presumably,
> the extra tracking can be done in dfmgr.c with more fields added to
> DynamicFileList to track the information involved.

I wouldn't add any overhead to the normal case for this.  Couldn't
we walk the list and re-fetch each module's magic block inside
this new function?

            regards, tom lane