Re: Extension Facility

"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>> Easy answer for first version: don't allow user to install extension in
>> another place than what we think will better suit him, and that's the
>> new schema pg_extension, which always lies just before pg_catalog in the
>> search_path.
>
> Well, I think that it's reasonable to allow an extension to be in any
> schema, with the default being pg_extension, but all of the objects in a
> single extension should assume that they're all in the same schema, at
> least to start. I mean, I can see the need for secondary schemas (or
> sub-schemas?) for encapsulation, but do we really need to go there in the
> first rev?

Well the problem with that is if for example I define foo() and bar()
functions in my extension, and the user also has a foo() function in his
own stuff (possibly lying in public, say).

Now if in my extenion in function bar() I call foo(), how do I make sure
I'm calling my extension's foo()?

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