Re: Finer Extension dependencies

Excerpts from Dimitri Fontaine's message of vie mar 23 11:05:37 -0300 2012:

> =# \d pg_extension_feature
> Table "pg_catalog.pg_extension_feature"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> ------------+------+-----------
> extoid | oid | not null
> extfeature | name | not null
> Indexes:
> "pg_extension_feature_name_index" UNIQUE, btree (extfeature)
> "pg_extension_feature_oid_index" UNIQUE, btree (oid)
> "pg_extension_feature_extoid_name_index" btree (extoid, extfeature)
>
> We could maybe get rid of the (extoid, extfeature) index which is only
> used to get sorted output in list_extension_features() function, but I
> don't know how to do an ORDER BY scan without index in C (yet).
>
> The ordering is then used to maintain pg_depend when the list of
> provided features changes at upgrade time. We fetch the ordered list of
> “old” feature names then for each newly provided feature name we
> bsearch() the old list, which then needs to be properly ordered.

Hm, couldn't it be done simply with a qsort()? Presumably there aren't
many feature entries to sort ...

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