Re: Schema version management

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>, Vik Reykja <vikreykja(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Schema version management
Date: 2012-07-11 21:03:03
Message-ID: 1342040583.2712.13.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2012-07-10 at 17:54 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> In general, NTFS forbids the use of these printable ASCII chars in
> filenames (see
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations>:
>
> " * : < > ? \ / |

> Many of these could be used in operators.

Yeah, that's a bummer. Then I guess some escape mechanism would be OK.
I could imagine an operator < on a custom data type being dumped into a
file named operator_%3C.sql. Still better than putting them all in one
file.

Of course, argument types need to be dealt with as well, just like with
functions (plus prefix/postfix).

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