Re: transforms

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> At run time, this will sort itself out, because all the required modules
> will be loaded. The problem is when you create the "glue" extension and
> haven't invoked any code from any of the dependent extension in the
> session. Abstractly, the possible solutions are either not to check the
> functions when the extension is created (possibly settable by a flag) or
> to somehow force a load of all dependent extensions when the new
> extension is created. (I say extension here even though dynamically
> loadable modules are attached to functions, which makes this even more
> confusing.)

I think CREATE EXTENSION should be LOADing all distinct modules
referenced from all required extensions functions. It does sound easy
enough to code, and I can't imagine why we would want to not do that.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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