Re: why two dashes in extension load files

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 17:08:47
Message-ID: 542EEE28-2C0E-4663-A991-6246EC5DA70F@kineticode.com
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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.

Best,

David

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