Re: Review: Extensions Patch

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:29 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
>>> IOW, if I install extension "foo" and it does *not* have the above
>>> magic line, then this command will *not* do what I expect:
>>>
>>>    CREATE EXTENSION foo WITH SCHEMA bar;
>>>
>>> Extension "foo" will be in the public schema (usually) rather than "bar".
>>
>> Well, before that you had to explicitly write public in there, which IMO
>> is so much worse. Then again, I now think that the right way to approach
>> that is to remove this feature. The user would have a 2-steps operation
>> instead, but that works right always.
>
> Yes, that would be preferable, but a one-step operation would of course be ideal.

I think this so-called two-step approach is pretty ugly.

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