Re: transforms

On 03/13/2013 09:54 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> 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.

Where are we with this? Will the loading issue be fixed, or should we
bump this feature to 9.4?

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