| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Extensions, this time with a patch |
| Date: | 2010-10-22 21:09:15 |
| Message-ID: | 29135.1287781755@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> writes:
> Anyway, my point is that by default there's no directory scanning: the
> lookup is first directed towards ${extension-name}.control, of
> course. Only when this file does not exists or its name property is
> different from the extension name do we get to scan the directory, and
> we stop as soon as we find the .control file with the right name in it.
This seems (a) way overcomplicated, and (b) sorely in need of a
unique-index mechanism.
Please just use the filenames and have done. This is lily-gilding
at its finest. People who want to use non-ascii filenames are welcome
to do so, and deal with any ensuing fallout themselves.
regards, tom lane
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