Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling
Date: 2011-02-12 23:12:43
Message-ID: 26248.1297552363@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I did think of another idea besides forbidding dash in extension names:
>> what if we use double dash as the name/version separator,

> +1 You might even consider mandating a double-dash between versions, so that they could have dashes:
> extension--oldversion--newversion.sql

Hm. I think we'd still have to disallow dash as the first or last
character in a version name to make that unambiguous. Not sure it's
worth the trouble.

regards, tom lane

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