| From: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Extension Templates S03E11 |
| Date: | 2013-12-09 17:45:51 |
| Message-ID: | 1386611151.19125.351.camel@jdavis |
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On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 12:17 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> > So if we do it this way, then we should pick a new name, like "package".
>
> That was my first reaction as well, when I looked at this a few years
> ago, but I've since backed away from that position. You're certainly
> correct that it's awkward to have a single kind of object that behaves
> in two radically different ways, but it's also pretty awkward to have
> the same "stuff" installed as one of two completely different types of
> objects depending on who installed it and how.
I think awkwardness is most visible in the resulting documentation and
error messages.
At the moment, I'm having a difficult time imagining how we explain how
this works to users (or, when they make a mistake or don't get the
results they expect, explain to them what they did wrong and how to fix
it).
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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