Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2024-12-12 11:35:56 +0700, Andrei Lepikhov wrote:
>> I want to say that 'cannot unload libraries' is a negative outcome of the
>> architecture. It would be better to invent something like PG_unregister,
>> allowing libraries to at least return a hook routine call back to the
>> system.
> I am quite certain we'll not support unloading libraries anytime soon. We used
> to support it and it caused problems... Changing anything about how exactly
> things are tracked in dfmgr.c will be the smallest part of supporting
> unloading libraries again.
Indeed. However, I don't see what that has to do with the current
discussion anyway. The proposed SRF would iterate through whatever
is in the DynamicFileList. What does it care whether there's a way
to add or remove entries?
regards, tom lane