From: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Dumping an Extension's Script |
Date: | 2012-12-05 22:43:05 |
Message-ID: | m2lidcce86.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> The argument here is that the user would then have packaged its
>> extension as files in the meantime. If not, that's operational error. A
>> backup you didn't restore successfully isn't a backup anyway.
>
> Uh. Wait. What? If that argument is valid, we don't need anything but
> file based extensions.
Well, I've been trying to understand the consensus, and to implement it
in the simplest possible way. Maybe the default should be to activate
automatically --extension-script for extensions without control files?
>> The idea is that the user did install the extensions that came by
>> strings. Last year the consensus was clearly for pg_dump not to
>> distinguish in between file based and string based extensions that are
>> exactly the same thing once installed in a database. That's the current
>> design.
>
> I don't find that argument convincing in the slightest. Could I perhaps
> convince you to dig up a reference? I would be interested in the
> arguments for that design back then.
I think here it is:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-01/msg01307.php
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support
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