Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Andrew Gierth
<andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:

>  - want to be able to do  INSTALL PACKAGE foo;  without needing to
>   mess with .sql files.  This might default to looking for
>   $libdir/foo.so, or there might be a mechanism to register packages
>   globally or locally.
>
>  - want to be able to do  INSTALL PACKAGE foo VERSION 1;  and get
>   the version 1 API rather than whatever the latest is.
>
>  - want to be able to do  INSTALL PACKAGE foo SCHEMA bar;  rather
>   than having to edit some .sql file.
>
>  - want to be able to do  DROP PACKAGE foo;
>
>  - want pg_dump to not output the definitions of any objects that
>   belong to a package, but instead to output an INSTALL PACKAGE foo
>   VERSION n SCHEMA x;

I think using PACKAGE is a bad idea as it'll confuse people used to
Oracle. MODULE perhaps?

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Dave Page
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