Re: search_path vs extensions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: search_path vs extensions
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Msg-id 603c8f070905281732w12048e63j704af93a7d8305f5@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: search_path vs extensions  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: search_path vs extensions  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> It also seems to me that we're getting seriously sidetracked from the
>>> dependency-tracking part of this project which seems to me to be a
>>> much deeper and more fundamental issue.
>> I thought that part was a pretty simple problem, actually.  Have an
>> object representing the module, make sure each component object in the
>> module has an AUTO dependency link to that object.  Where's the
>> difficulty?

I think it's a simple problem too...  except for the not-so-small
detail of who is going to implement it.

> Well, yes. Honestly, I think all this search_path stuff is a red herring. We
> are once again in danger of over-designing this instead of doing the simple
> thing first (namely, don't worry about the search_path).

Right.

...Robert


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