Re: search_path vs extensions

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: search_path vs extensions
Date: 2009-05-29 00:32:14
Message-ID: 603c8f070905281732w12048e63j704af93a7d8305f5@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> It also seems to me that we're getting seriously sidetracked from the
>>> dependency-tracking part of this project which seems to me to be a
>>> much deeper and more fundamental issue.
>> I thought that part was a pretty simple problem, actually.  Have an
>> object representing the module, make sure each component object in the
>> module has an AUTO dependency link to that object.  Where's the
>> difficulty?

I think it's a simple problem too... except for the not-so-small
detail of who is going to implement it.

> Well, yes. Honestly, I think all this search_path stuff is a red herring. We
> are once again in danger of over-designing this instead of doing the simple
> thing first (namely, don't worry about the search_path).

Right.

...Robert

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