Re: why two dashes in extension load files

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: why two dashes in extension load files
Date: 2011-02-15 01:03:50
Message-ID: 24691.1297731830@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Are we deparsing the names of the SQL files to infer the set of
> version numbers we have to worry about? It seems to me that if
> there's a list of known version numbers somewhere, we can use dash as
> the separator without any special restricton.

The list of known version numbers is inferred from the available files,
not vice versa. IMO that's a feature not a bug. A manually maintained
list would just be one more thing to forget to update.

regards, tom lane

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