Re: Dumping an Extension's Script

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dumping an Extension's Script
Date: 2012-12-05 20:43:56
Message-ID: 20121205204356.GF4673@alvh.no-ip.org
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Andres Freund escribió:
> On 2012-12-05 21:16:52 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

> > Now if we can't fix the executable files situation, what about making
> > the C coded extensions not require an executable anymore? I'm thinking
> > about studying what it would take exactly to write a PL/C where the
> > PostgreSQL backend would basically compile the embedded C code at CREATE
> > FUNCTION time and store bytecode or binary in the probin column.

> Imo thats not a sensible thing to pursue.

+1. Certainly a pg_dump patch's thread is not the place to propose it.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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