Re: TODO: Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TODO: Rename some /contrib modules from pg* to pg_*
Date: 2006-06-08 22:33:40
Message-ID: 4488A5C4.3010303@commandprompt.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> 1. Fix makefiles so that contrib modules such as pgcrypto are not pg_crypto
>> 2. Move directories to reflect above
>> 3. Fix source and makefiles within sub project directories to create
>> binaries and libs with correct output.. thus libpgcrypto.so.0.0 would
>> become libpg_crypto.so.0.0
>
> That will lose the CVS history of the modules, which is not worth the
> small benefit gained from more consistent-looking names. Renaming
> existing shared libraries is also a very bad idea, because it will
> break existing dump scripts.
>
> I don't know when that TODO item got put in, but it's a stupid idea.

O.k. just trying to help :)

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>

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