| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: in-catalog Extension Scripts and Control parameters (templates?) |
| Date: | 2013-01-18 18:21:56 |
| Message-ID: | 20130118182156.GF16126@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> On 2013-01-18 12:45:02 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > 'Template' seems like a really broad term which might end up being
> > associated with things beyond extensions, yet there are a number of
> > places where you just use 'TEMPLATE', eg, ACL_KIND_TEMPLATE. Seems like
> > it might become an issue later.
>
> I think Tom came up with that name and while several people (including
> me and I think also Dim) didn't really like it nobody has come up with a
> better name so far.
'Extension Template' is fine, I was just objecting to places in the code
where it just says 'TEMPLATE'. I imagine we might have some 'XXX
Template' at some point in the future and then we'd have confusion
between "is this an *extension* template or an XXX template?".
Thanks,
Stephen
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