Re: extension facility (was: revised hstore patch)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: extension facility (was: revised hstore patch)
Date: 2009-07-23 18:25:24
Message-ID: 603c8f070907231125j305257f6s53287e4024180935@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM, David E. Wheeler<david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:08, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Yes... but "if" and "just" can paper over a good deal of complexity, and
>> it's not clear to me that there's any compensating advantage.
>
> It seems reasonable not to worry about this issue in the first rev, or at
> least not to let it stop development of other features, so that it gas time
> to gel via discussion over time.

Yes, I still think the most fundamental issue here is getting to the
point where pg_dump dumps the right thing. The central aspect of that
is a system for keeping track of which objects are part of an
extension using pg_depend.

...Robert

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