Re: module archive

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:31:30PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> From time to time people have raised the idea of a CPAN-like mechanism
> for downloading, building and installing extensions and the like (types,
> functions, sample dbs, anything not requiring Postgres itself to be
> rebuilt), and I have been thinking on this for the last few days. What
> sort of requirements would people have of such a mechanism? How do
> people envision it working?

There's been some discussion before:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00327.php

The most useful feature IMHO would be if the installed modules could be
recognised as a block (using pg_depends) so that:

1. pg_dump can see them and emit only INSTALL <module>
2. Uninstall removes everything that was installed

This only covers installtion though, not building or compiling.

Have a nice day,
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