Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.
Date: 2006-08-09 14:01:13
Message-ID: 44D9EAA9.6080407@archonet.com
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Richard Huxton wrote:
>
> Packaging
> I'd guess we'd need a pg_package and pg_package_items system tables. We
> could track:
> - package name (different from schema)
> - version number
> - install/uninstall functions
> - start-session/end-session functions
> - dependencies (is pg_depend enough)
> pg_package_items
> - schema-name
> - variables, functions, tables, views etc

While I'm thinking of it:

pg_dump needs to either dump a package as a complete package, or be able
to replace them with an instruction to import the relevant package
(where there is no associated data, just functions).

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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