Re: Extensions User Design

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I have zero interest in trying to support either. I doubt it's even
> possible --- the backend code has no way to inform the dynamic loader
> how to resolve cross-library references. So if the DL doesn't already
> understand the dependency it's never going to work.

Ok, that means less work for the extension facility (it was not
targetted for it's first incarnation anyway) stuff.

FWIW, I had in mind to use the dependancy information in the extension
meta-data to issue more than one "dlopen()" when a plugin function is
called. I'm being told that in my case linking uuid-ossp.so against
uuid.so should do the trick, though.

I'll drop the idea off the scope of the extension facility.

Regards,
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dim