| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: why two dashes in extension load files |
| Date: | 2011-02-14 17:14:47 |
| Message-ID: | 26477.1297703687@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'm not convinced. There was nothing in that discussion why any
>>> particular character would have to be allowed in a version number.
>> Well, there's already a counterexample in the current contrib stuff:
>> uuid-ossp. We could rename that to uuid_ossp of course, but it's
>> not clear to me that there's consensus for forbidding dashes here.
> I'd be fine if commas were used instead.
Commas do not seem like an improvement to me at all --- they are widely
used as list separators.
I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the
double-dash method?
regards, tom lane
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