Re: Finer Extension dependencies - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Benedikt Grundmann
Subject Re: Finer Extension dependencies
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Msg-id CADbMkNNasx6rzbZhbUsnqUvMP5mx+crzzXqzTE10_cT6AZa5nA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Finer Extension dependencies  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> I gather from previous posts that the intent isn't to allow different
> packages from different authors to provide a common and compatible
> feature; but what happens in the current design if someone
> accidentally or maliciously produces an extension which provides the
> same feature name as another extension?
>
> Would we need some registry?

A good (documented) convention should make that unnecessary such
as:

packagename.feature

for example
provides hstore.populate_record

Or something along those lines.  Or maybe even prefix it with java
like inverse url of author of package.

Cheers,

Bene


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